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beebarfbadger@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

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 year ago
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  • parpol@programming.dev
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    The internet sure has grown. Some day it’ll be too big to even fit inside OP’s mom.

    • crawancon@lemm.ee
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      OP’s mom’s pussy is so big, Thanos had to snap twice.

  • EvilLootbox@lemmy.world
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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.

  • gregorum@lemm.ee
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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.

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

        • 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!

        • Eheran@lemmy.world
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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

  • TheLugal@lemmy.world
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    There also was a time when the entirety of the human language would fit in this thread.

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

      • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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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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      grunts approval

      • dumbass@lemy.lol
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        grunts dismissive mocking

        • Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world
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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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