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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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  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆@yiffit.net
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    The internet or the world wide web?

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      Well both technically, but at different times

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

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

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          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.

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

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              But he was talking about storage

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