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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. (lemmy.world)
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[-] yiliu@informis.land 11 points 7 months ago

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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