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[-] parpol@programming.dev 79 points 3 months ago

The internet sure has grown. Some day it'll be too big to even fit inside OP's mom.

[-] GladiusB@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago
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[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 48 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 17 points 3 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@lemm.ee 39 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

Yeah, but if you wrote really small on a note card you could have used the entire internet on a test!

[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

And were all 7 of those pages uploaded at the same time? Ha, gotchu now! (But for real, is .doc that old?)

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 11 points 3 months ago

According to wikipedia, "Microsoft has used the extension since 1983."

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[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

Lol, no idea

[-] kambusha@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago
[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

“Congratulations on buying a Packard Bell computer. Would you like to register me?”

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Welcome to Packard Bell Navigator!

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

[ ] YES

[ ] Maybe Later

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[-] EvilLootbox@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago

Anyone remember that offline Wikipedia reader that had the whole text of English wiki on it? I always thought it was neat.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiReader

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

You can still download an archive of Wikipedia today, and it's smaller than you'd expect

[-] essell@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

How big do I expect it to be?

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

Bigger than it actually is

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[-] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

At least twelve megabytes. Probably even more.

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[-] the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago
[-] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks 3 points 3 months ago

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[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 3 months ago

Nowadays there's Kiwix

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[-] freebread@lemm.ee 20 points 3 months ago

The power of the sun in the palm of my hand.

[-] wahming@monyet.cc 6 points 3 months ago

The power of Sun Microsystems in the palm of my hand

[-] Kolli@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

The unmatched power of the sun, even?

[-] TheLugal@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

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

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 months ago
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[-] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

grunts don't make me turn this mammoth around

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[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 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@fedia.io 13 points 3 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.

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 10 points 3 months ago

Instructions unclear, universe exploded my phone when I tried to fit it inside

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[-] catharso@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 3 months ago

The entirety of the internet on my toilet.

[-] yiliu@informis.land 11 points 3 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.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago
[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 months ago

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

[-] AeroLemming@lemm.ee 5 points 3 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.

[-] yiliu@informis.land 9 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

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

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

One single html page? I guess, yes.

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[-] Resol@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 3 months ago

The internet or the world wide web?

[-] Daxtron2@startrek.website 4 points 3 months ago

Well both technically, but at different times

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 3 months ago

I'm not so sure a single phone could have handled the internet even in infancy. You'd need at least 2. :p

[-] Daxtron2@startrek.website 3 points 3 months ago

Run a VM in the phone that connects to the host over an OTG cable. Boom, internet

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