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beebarfbadger@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1年前

There was a time when the entirety of the internet would have fit onto the device you're currently browsing on.

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There was a time when the entirety of the internet would have fit onto the device you're currently browsing on.

beebarfbadger@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1年前
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    deleted by creator

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      OP’s mom’s pussy is so big, Thanos had to snap twice.

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        deleted by creator

    • GladiusB@lemmy.world
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      Got em!

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

    • Eheran@lemmy.world
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      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.

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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.

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

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

          • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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            According to wikipedia, “Microsoft has used the extension since 1983.”

            • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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              Ha! So not as old as me

          • gregorum@lemm.ee
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            Lol, no idea

        • kambusha@lemmy.world
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          First spam

          • gregorum@lemm.ee
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            “Congratulations on buying a Packard Bell computer. Would you like to register me?”

            • ripcord@lemmy.world
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              Welcome to Packard Bell Navigator!

            • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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              [ ] YES

              [ ] Maybe Later

        • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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          This is actually exactly why I love the internet

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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.

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

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

      • essell@lemmy.world
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        How big do I expect it to be?

        • 9point6@lemmy.world
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          Bigger than it actually is

          • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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            Q.E.D.

        • beebarfbadger@lemmy.worldOP
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          At least twelve megabytes. Probably even more.

      • ripcord@lemmy.world
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        I downloaded one recently for when I was going to be offline for a whole week. It worked amazingly well!

    • the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world
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      No, but i do remember Microsoft Encarta 98

      • PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocksB
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        Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

        Microsoft Encarta 98

        Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

        I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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      Nowadays there’s Kiwix

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      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1lRI35gKSPA

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        Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

        https://m.piped.video/watch?v=1lRI35gKSPA

        Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

        I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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

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      The power of Sun Microsystems in the palm of my hand

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        Unix noises

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          Wait, what does that sound like?

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            Unix machine

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆@yiffit.net
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        drinks a cup of Java

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      The unmatched power of the sun, even?

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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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      grunts approval

      • dumbass@lemy.lol
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        grunts dismissive mocking

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          grunts don’t make me turn this mammoth around

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            grunts gotta go potty

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          Grunt grunt, grunt /s

    • Zippy@lemmy.world
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      We have a great great great great … grandfather that was a single cell.

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        Your ellipsis is too long. It’s like dot dot dot …. it just keeps going on and on and on

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    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.”

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    deleted by creator

    • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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      Instructions unclear, universe exploded my phone when I tried to fit it inside

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        Now that’s gonna be one spicy pillow

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      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.

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      What if I don’t believe it?

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        If your lack of belief in it changed the actual reality of things, I’m pretty sure that’d make you God.

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          And just like that, God existed

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    • ƊƲƘЄƬӇƠƦƖƠƝ
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      And they still recommended two 256mb sticks instead of one 512…

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    The entirety of the internet on my toilet.

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    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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      ✋

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    No it wouldn’t since it wasn’t made at thr time.

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      English not your first language? No worries, see the “would have”? That phrase signifies a hypothetical - I’ll leave you to ponder what hypothetical situation could be meant in this particular case, but spoiler: it involves comparing features of things that were constructed in different time frames.

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        No it doesn’t

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        Why don’t you go figure out what a shower thought is before berating this guy.

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          I’m not berating, I’m helping clear up some confusion about the conditionals.

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

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    One single html page? I guess, yes.

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

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

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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

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

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    The internet or the world wide web?

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      Well both technically, but at different times

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

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

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          At least 2 phones? Could be 1 phone with a big SD card then…?

          But how much stuff do you think was on the nascient www? There’s periods where it was literally a few dozen megabytes. Even when usenet was pretty active it wasn’t much space in the scheme of things, we had servers storing everything in some few gigabytes of storage.

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            It was a joke about needing to create a network, which requires at least 2 devices talking to each other.

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              But he was talking about storage

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