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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.

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- OP's mom's pussy is so big, Thanos had to snap twice.
- Got em!
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
- 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?
  
  I downloaded one recently for when I was going to be offline for a whole week. It worked amazingly well!
- No, but i do remember Microsoft Encarta 98
  
  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.
- Nowadays there's Kiwix
- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1lRI35gKSPA
  
  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.
The power of the sun in the palm of my hand.
- The power of Sun Microsystems in the palm of my hand
  
  Unix noises
  
  drinks a cup of Java
- The unmatched power of the sun, even?
There also was a time when the entirety of the human language would fit in this thread.
- grunts approval
  
  grunts dismissive mocking
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
  
  Now that's gonna be one spicy pillow
- 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.
- What if I don't believe it?
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."
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.
- ✋
- And they still recommended two 256mb sticks instead of one 512...
There is a time where the entire universe could of fit in the volume of your phone.
- And when that future comes, Apple will still manage to fill 50% of your space up with god-knows-what.
  
  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
- 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
This is not a shower thought
- It literally was though.
  
  That's not what this sub is for.
🤯
and it was more diverse, surprising, and engaging than what the have now.
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.
The Mistral language model is 3.8gb and has a crazy amount of knowledge
- Then it will pass better on Turing test.
  It's a feature.
  
  I wouldn't say a lot. Llama2 is way worse in my experience. Mistral gives fairly factual information.
  Regardless, it is still wild that 3.8gb can go so far
Get rid of videos and we probably still could.
Wikipedia is ridiculously small

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