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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?
Bigger than it actually is
At least twelve megabytes. Probably even more.
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):
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
Wait, what does that sound like?
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.
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grunts dismissive mocking
grunts don't make me turn this mammoth around
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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.
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There is a time where the entire universe could of fit in the volume of your phone.
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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I wonder when smartphones with a capacity of 40 zettabytes will officially come out. Then we can post this all over again.
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