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Originally Posted by GreenMonkey
It sounded ridiculous to me too, but really, most of Wikipedia is just text. I thought, maybe if you stripped out the images....
So a quick google search and I found this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...dia#size_in_GB
Wikipedia minus images is apparently around 8GB? Craziness! |
Okay, I stand corrected
But, it sure does point out a few things to old (well, getting there) guys like me:
- All the pages of "stuff" we look at on the internet is so bloated with images and formatting we forget how tiny the actual text part is.
- Modern storage (like 16G cards) is so cheap and BIG. I forget that it's designed for photos and video.
- Text is small in terms of storage.
Guess my mind is still locked in the 1970s when a 100K (note: K, not meg or gig) floppy disks were considered hi-tech