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

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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.

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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.

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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?)

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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!

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First spam

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This is actually exactly why I love the internet

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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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No, but i do remember Microsoft Encarta 98

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Microsoft Encarta 98

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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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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At least twelve megabytes. Probably even more.

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Bigger than it actually is

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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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Nowadays there’s Kiwix

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://m.piped.video/watch?v=1lRI35gKSPA

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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And they still recommended two 256mb sticks instead of one 512…

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

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Got em!

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