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    As someone who wrote for computer magazines in the 1980s, can confirm ☺ But MiB is for Men in Black
    – scruss
    Commented May 1, 2020 at 22:55
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    It seems wrong to ascribe to lack of education the not knowing something that was not standardized in the 1970s, was de facto standardized the following decade (ironically for this answer, as promoted by computer magazines such as BYTE and InfoWorld), and only de jure standardized (with bit not abreviated to lowercase b, contrary to the question and what the de facto conventions were) in the 21st century. That's lack of a time machine, not lack of education.
    – JdeBP
    Commented May 2, 2020 at 7:57
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    @JdeBP To be fair the quoted line says 1970s / early 80s. And there are standards using lowercase b for bit: 1 2
    – JBentley
    Commented May 2, 2020 at 10:55
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    You are side-stepping where you ascribed it to people not being educated, Raffzahn. And you are dodging and weaving, talking of lack of standardization in one breath and then claiming worldwide standardization in the next. M. Bentley has pointed to some 21st century years for you. And M. Bentley, you cannot be seriously proposing that standards from 2002 and 2004 are counterexamples to what I said about standardization in the 21st century. ISO/IEC 2382:1984, would be a counterexample, were it not that its entries for "bit" and "byte" do not give abbreviations. (-:
    – JdeBP
    Commented May 2, 2020 at 12:57
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    @JdeBP I think you misunderstood me. The standards I cited were counterexamples to this: "with bit not abbreviated to lowercase b". I was pointing out that they were abbreviated to lowercase b.
    – JBentley
    Commented May 4, 2020 at 6:40