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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

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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)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

But he was talking about storage