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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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YouTube, Wikipedia, and Archive.org are the modern day library of Alexandria (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Had this thought the other day and tbh it's horrifying to think about the implications of one, or God forbid all, of them going down.
Stackoverflow too but that only applies to nerds haha

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

But that's just for the text version without media files

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

25gb of text is a lot dang!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I assume that contains all the different languages. So most articles will repeat the same information like 10 times or whatever for all the different common languages. Still a huge amount of text though!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Nope, 25 gb is just english language wikipedia compressed, no images. All the other languages are smaller.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

Ahh compressed so it’s like… a lot times a lot of text