Weird Al had 100 gigs of RAM

The article is about how memory has not progressed as much as other technologies over the past two decades, despite a prediction to the contrary in a Weird Al Yankovich song, It’s All About the Pentiums, which boasts about having ‘a hundred gigabytes of RAM’. The author points out that most people still don’t have that amount of RAM today, and in fact the average person has much less. They discuss the reasons why this prediction has not come true, including the trend towards using less upgradeable fixed memory, the increased demands on memory from software and browser tabs, and the relatively static amount of RAM being shipped in standard machines by manufacturers. The author concludes by expressing a hope that baseline amounts of RAM in computers might increase in the future.