NoIWontPickAName,

Get rid of videos and we probably still could.

Wikipedia is ridiculously small

downpunxx,

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.

beebarfbadger,

What if I don’t believe it?

TheKMAP,

If your lack of belief in it changed the actual reality of things, I’m pretty sure that’d make you God.

intensely_human,

And just like that, God existed

PhlubbaDubba,

Instructions unclear, universe exploded my phone when I tried to fit it inside

Shady_Shiroe,
@Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world avatar

Now that’s gonna be one spicy pillow

cynar,

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.

TheLugal,
@TheLugal@lemmy.world avatar

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

Zippy,

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

intensely_human,

Your ellipsis is too long. It’s like dot dot dot …. it just keeps going on and on and on

brbposting,

grunts approval

dumbass, (edited )
@dumbass@lemy.lol avatar

grunts dismissive mocking

trolololol,

Grunt grunt, grunt /s

Everythingispenguins,

grunts don’t make me turn this mammoth around

intensely_human,

grunts gotta go potty

EvilLootbox,

Anyone remember that offline Wikipedia reader that had the whole text of English wiki on it? I always thought it was neat.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiReader

entropicdrift,
@entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Nowadays there’s Kiwix

Slovene,
the_grass_trainer,

No, but i do remember Microsoft Encarta 98

9point6,

You can still download an archive of Wikipedia today, and it’s smaller than you’d expect

ripcord,
@ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

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

essell,

How big do I expect it to be?

beebarfbadger,

At least twelve megabytes. Probably even more.

9point6,

Bigger than it actually is

intensely_human,

Q.E.D.

gregorum,

There was a time it would’ve fit on a floppy

Eheran,

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, (edited )

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.

kambusha,

First spam

gregorum, (edited )

“Congratulations on buying a Packard Bell computer. Would you like to register me?”

brbposting,

[ ] YES

[ ] Maybe Later

ripcord,
@ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

Welcome to Packard Bell Navigator!

intensely_human,

This is actually exactly why I love the internet

Eheran,

And were all 7 of those pages uploaded at the same time? Ha, gotchu now! (But for real, is .doc that old?)

ICastFist,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

According to wikipedia, “Microsoft has used the extension since 1983.”

intensely_human,

Ha! So not as old as me

gregorum,

Lol, no idea

givesomefucks,

Yeah, but if you wrote really small on a note card you could have used the entire internet on a test!

Hobbes,

This is not a shower thought

beebarfbadger,

It literally was though.

Hobbes,

That’s not what this sub is for.

beebarfbadger,

Just to sum up: after telling me that this shower thought is not a shower thought, you say that the shower thoughts community is not the place for shower thoughts.

Did you forget where you are posting? Or do you maybe have a very … unique … definition of what comprises

“the thoughts that pop into your head while you’re doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. […] thoughts that many people can relate to and […] find something funny or interesting in regular stuff”

as per the sidebar?

Hobbes,

It’s not for literally any thought that occurs during a shower.

beebarfbadger,

Right, it’s for

“the thoughts that pop into your head while you’re doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. […] thoughts that many people can relate to and […] find something funny or interesting in regular stuff”.

possiblylinux127,

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

AeroLemming,

It lies a lot

trolololol,

Then it will pass better on Turing test.

It’s a feature.

possiblylinux127,

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

iquanyin,
@iquanyin@lemmy.world avatar

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

Resol,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

I wonder when smartphones with a capacity of 40 zettabytes will officially come out. Then we can post this all over again.

possiblylinux127,

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

TheKMAP,

That’s just the intermediate value theorem.

If we define the size of the Internet as a continuous function, and it started at zero and currently doesn’t fit in your phone then yeah, no shit, at some point it fit in your phone.

If it’s truly continuous there was an exact point where it would exactly fill up your phone with no room left over.

MonkderZweite,

One single html page? I guess, yes.

bitwaba,

It’s one html page Michael. How big could it be? 10 gigabytes?

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

The internet or the world wide web?

Daxtron2,

Well both technically, but at different times

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

I’m not so sure a single phone could have handled the internet even in infancy. You’d need at least 2. :p

Daxtron2,

Run a VM in the phone that connects to the host over an OTG cable. Boom, internet

ripcord,
@ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

At least 2 phones? Could be 1 phone with a big SD card then…?

But how much stuff do you think was on the nascient www? There’s periods where it was literally a few dozen megabytes. Even when usenet was pretty active it wasn’t much space in the scheme of things, we had servers storing everything in some few gigabytes of storage.

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

It was a joke about needing to create a network, which requires at least 2 devices talking to each other.

ripcord,
@ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

But he was talking about storage

freebread,

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

Kolli,

The unmatched power of the sun, even?

wahming,

The power of Sun Microsystems in the palm of my hand

possiblylinux127,

Unix noises

ripcord,
@ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

Wait, what does that sound like?

possiblylinux127,
Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

drinks a cup of Java

AeroLemming,

There may be a time in the future when the entire internet as it is now could fit on whatever people have instead of cell phones in a few hundred years.

beebarfbadger,

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

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