| Yahoo | One of the survivors on the Internet. Yahoo is a Search Engine and Directory that has been around since the early days of the Web. |
| YB | Yottabyte - 2 to the power of 80 Bytes = 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 bytes. OK, you won't come across this one very often, but it is a genuine "SI" unit (the largest one), adopted in 1990 by the "19th Conference Génerale des Poids et Mésures". No doubt in a couple of years hard disks will be sold by the yottabyte and we'll wonder how we managed with only tens of Gigabytes (GBs) ! (1YB = 1GB x 1GB x 1,048,576) |