I’ll chime in as well…I bought a Syquest removable hard-drive system that used 44MB cartridges in 1988. (I used it to connect to the Mac II computers in the university computer lab.)
In 1990 I bought a Mac IIsi that had an option for a 40MB hard drive or an 80MB hard drive. (This was the first computer I purchased, and I got the 80MB option.)
Also, even in the U.S., internet at home in the mid-90s basically consisted of the walled gardens of Compuserve and AOL, accessed via dial-up.
Merged? PC DOS and MS-DOS were different but very similar products. The core of both provided by MS (originally built around 86-DOS) with IBM making their own changes. Some features appeared at first in different versions between the two. They completely split with versions 6.1 with IBM providing PC DOS on its own from then on. (This split was considered a sign of the Apocalypse back then!)
saw what you did there 
That strip is from 1995. By then the recipe trope had been around for decades.
A recent youtube video on the Google Developer’s channel reminded me of this thread. Decades later, completely new user interface paradigm, and we are back to storing recipes again.
Unless you had Doom II, which of course meant you HAD to install DEU, and the next thing you know, 40mb of HDD is long gone.
40mb sounds trivial, but you’d have to look at the cost of 40mb of HDD back then, which was less than trivial
whats so funny is at one time is when you bought a brand name pc from a store they included recipie cd’s from better homes and gardens and other magazines (mine was “100 great recipies of 1994” courtesy of Packard bell ) … what were they?
scanned pages from the magazines… when you printed one out that’s what they exactly looked like … some of them even still had the month year and page number on the sides