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Is there, fundamentally? Hotmail, Altavista, Yahoo Mail, eBay were all a thing then.. and it wasn't like noone was using them at the time either.. which isn't
by cat199 9y ago
Is there, fundamentally?
Hotmail, Altavista, Yahoo Mail, eBay were all a thing then.. and it wasn't like noone was using them at the time either..
which isn't to say everything hasn't advanced, but in my opinion this isn't really a 'difference in kind'..
- myrandomcomment 9y agoAgree. Hotmail IIRC had 9K or so servers. Yahoo had even more. I think doing this at scale is simpler today because the networking is simpler, i.e., IP fabrics and VMs and containers. If you are building something today and want to use Layer2 I question your santiy.
- pvg 9y agoYeah I think there is. This is what wikipedia says Altavista "As of 1998, it used 20 multi-processor machines using DEC's 64-bit Alpha processor. Together, the back-end machines had 130 GB of RAM and 500 GB of hard disk drive space, and received 13 million queries every day" There are probably more read-only queries to gists per day than that.