The internet sure has grown. Some day it'll be too big to even fit inside OP's mom.
this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2024
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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
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The power of the sun in the palm of my hand.
The unmatched power of the sun, even?
There also was a time when the entirety of the human language would fit in this thread.
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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."
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.
Instructions unclear, universe exploded my phone when I tried to fit it inside
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The entirety of the internet on my toilet.
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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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?
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.
And when that future comes, Apple will still manage to fill 50% of your space up with god-knows-what.
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Knocking on wood that we don't nuke, fry or pollute ourselves out of the race until then.
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?
Well both technically, but at different times
I'm not so sure a single phone could have handled the internet even in infancy. You'd need at least 2. :p
Run a VM in the phone that connects to the host over an OTG cable. Boom, internet
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