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Basically the title. The fact that we can read an encyclopedia entry on the economic history of the Netherlands from our phone is crazy. Scrolling over to a random island in the middle of the Atlantic to experience a virtual street tour is insane. There are even websites that let you see live security camera footage (shoutout to EarthCamTV). We have so much information that we take for granted.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

they have different tiers, mostly separated by how many pictures are included.

when I used the archives, the smallest was almost 3 GB, and the largest was 80 GB?

let me check.

full wikipedia is 110GB now.

Wikipedia in simple English is still only 2 and 1/2 GB.

here are all the libraries in English:

https://library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng&category=wikipedia

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wow I really thought it would be bigger, I was way off!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

I couldn't believe it. back when I first got it, maybe a decade ago, I think it was only around 45 or 50 GB.

I was very confused, and figured okay, I'll just download all of Wikipedia.

and then I freaking had all of Wikipedia on my phone for years and it was amazing.

every time there was a reference I didn't get, every time there was anything I didn't get, I pulled up Wikipedia and boom there it was.

and I travel a lot, so I don't always have data, but I had Wikipedia offline.

it truly is amazing!

this is really make me want to get an expandable storage phone again.