40 Unique Photographs That Capture Rare Moments Throughout History

Can you imagine a world without the technology we have today? Some of you probably can, and yet it seems pretty far away. So many technological inventions have made our everyday lives and jobs way easier than they used to be. Nowadays, the thought of doing anything manually just sounds like it would take forever. Data entry has certainly changed since this photo was taken in 1955.

Back then, punched cards were the most common way businesses and governments record and process data. This photo shows a stack of 62,500 punched cards, and an employee standing next to it for scale. All of this paper would amount to about 4.5 megabytes of data today, and the necessary storage space is a lot smaller now!