• gregorum
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    472 months ago

    There was a time it would’ve fit on a floppy

    • @Eheran
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      162 months ago

      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.

      • gregorum
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        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.

  • TheLugal
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    192 months ago

    There also was a time when the entirety of the human language would fit in this thread.

  • @[email protected]
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    152 months ago

    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.”

  • downpunxx
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    132 months ago

    If you believe The Big Bang Theory there’s a time the entirety of everything would have fit onto the device you’re currently browsing on.

    • @cynar
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      12 months ago

      Not necessarily. All we know is that everything seemed to come from a single point, on a cosmic scale. However, at that scale, our entire galaxy would be considered a single point.

      What we do know is that everything is expanding, and that it was homogeneous by the point that it cooled enough to cease being a plasma (and so opaque to light). It could have been a vast area that suddenly spawned matter/energy, rather than a single point.

  • @[email protected]
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    112 months ago

    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.

  • Possibly linux
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    62 months ago

    There is a time where the entire universe could of fit in the volume of your phone.

    • @bitwaba
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      22 months ago

      It’s one html page Michael. How big could it be? 10 gigabytes?

  • @[email protected]
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    52 months ago

    There may be a time in the future when the entire internet as it is now could fit on whatever people have instead of cell phones in a few hundred years.

    • @[email protected]
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      And when that future comes, Apple will still manage to fill 50% of your space up with god-knows-what.

      • @AngryCommieKender
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        Doubtful. Corporations seem to have a lifespan of 150 to 200 years at most. IBM may manage to break the 150 mark, but they are already losing market share. The cracks are showing in Apple only a decade after Steve Jobs died. I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple, Google, and Meta are all gone before they hit the 100 year mark, the latter two may not make it to 50

    • @beebarfbadgerOP
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      32 months ago

      Knocking on wood that we don’t nuke, fry or pollute ourselves out of the race until then.

  • Resol van Lemmy
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    42 months ago

    I wonder when smartphones with a capacity of 40 zettabytes will officially come out. Then we can post this all over again.