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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.
Not true. The first document on the internet was, in fact, 7 pages in 8pt font.
It was the New Purchase brochure from a Packard Bell 286 4MHz from Circuit City transcribed into .doc format.
Yeah, but if you wrote really small on a note card you could have used the entire internet on a test!
And were all 7 of those pages uploaded at the same time? Ha, gotchu now! (But for real, is .doc that old?)
According to wikipedia, "Microsoft has used the extension since 1983."
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Lol, no idea
First spam
“Congratulations on buying a Packard Bell computer. Would you like to register me?”
Welcome to Packard Bell Navigator!
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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?
At least twelve megabytes. Probably even more.
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No, but i do remember Microsoft Encarta 98
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
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There also was a time when the entirety of the human language would fit in this thread.
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The power of the sun in the palm of my hand.
The unmatched power of the sun, even?
Back in like 2005 or 2006, I remember posting an article to Fark about a company that wanted to make a laptop that had the entire internet cached on it so you could browse the web offline. That was almost 20 years ago and I remember saying "they have seriously underestimated the amount of porn on the internet."
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.
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The entirety of the internet on my toilet.
There is a time where the entire universe could of fit in the volume of your phone.
One single html page? I guess, yes.
It's one html page Michael. How big could it be? 10 gigabytes?
I wonder when smartphones with a capacity of 40 zettabytes will officially come out. Then we can post this all over again.
The internet or the world wide web?
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