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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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    deleted by creator

    • GladiusB@lemmy.world
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      Got em!

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      OP’s mom’s pussy is so big, Thanos had to snap twice.

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  • 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.

      • gregorum@lemm.ee
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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.

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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          Yeah, but if you wrote really small on a note card you could have used the entire internet on a test!

        • 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

          • gregorum@lemm.ee
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            Lol, no idea

        • 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!

            • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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              [ ] YES

              [ ] Maybe Later

  • 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

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        How big do I expect it to be?

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          Bigger than it actually is

          • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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            Q.E.D.

        • beebarfbadger@lemmy.worldOP
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          At least twelve megabytes. Probably even more.

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        I downloaded one recently for when I was going to be offline for a whole week. It worked amazingly well!

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      No, but i do remember Microsoft Encarta 98

    • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
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      Nowadays there’s Kiwix

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      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1lRI35gKSPA

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    The power of the sun in the palm of my hand.

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      The power of Sun Microsystems in the palm of my hand

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        Unix noises

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          Wait, what does that sound like?

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            Unix machine

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      The unmatched power of the sun, even?

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    There also was a time when the entirety of the human language would fit in this thread.

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      grunts approval

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      We have a great great great great … grandfather that was a single cell.

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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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    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.”

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    • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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      Instructions unclear, universe exploded my phone when I tried to fit it inside

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        Now that’s gonna be one spicy pillow

    • beebarfbadger@lemmy.worldOP
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      What if I don’t believe it?

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      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.

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    The entirety of the internet on my toilet.

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    There is a time where the entire universe could of fit in the volume of your phone.

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      Knocking on wood that we don’t nuke, fry or pollute ourselves out of the race until then.

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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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    and it was more diverse, surprising, and engaging than what the have now.

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    No it wouldn’t since it wasn’t made at thr time.

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      English not your first language? No worries, see the “would have”? That phrase signifies a hypothetical - I’ll leave you to ponder what hypothetical situation could be meant in this particular case, but spoiler: it involves comparing features of things that were constructed in different time frames.

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        Why don’t you go figure out what a shower thought is before berating this guy.

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          I’m not berating, I’m helping clear up some confusion about the conditionals.

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        No it doesn’t

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    🤯

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    The Mistral language model is 3.8gb and has a crazy amount of knowledge

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        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

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        Then it will pass better on Turing test.

        It’s a feature.

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