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and it was more diverse, surprising, and engaging than what the have now.
I wonder when smartphones with a capacity of 40 zettabytes will officially come out. Then we can post this all over again.
There also was a time when the entirety of the human language would fit in this thread.
We have a great great great great … grandfather that was a single cell.
I remember, towards the end of the last millennium, marveling with some friends about an article estimating the current size of all the data on the internet. IIRC, it was in the neighborhood of a couple hundred terabytes. Wouldn’t fit on your phone, but there’s plenty of data hoarder types who have that kinda storage on the server in their spare room.
There was a time it would’ve fit on a floppy
This is really nonsensical. It could fit on a piece of paper in font size 8 if you go back far enough and “stretch” the definition of Internet.
Get rid of videos and we probably still could.
Wikipedia is ridiculously small
Anyone remember that offline Wikipedia reader that had the whole text of English wiki on it? I always thought it was neat.
You can still download an archive of Wikipedia today, and it’s smaller than you’d expect
How big do I expect it to be?
