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I think my favorite part of this was: It has culminated in the WebBase project whose aims are to maintain a local copy of the World Wide Web Weird to think th

by javanix 16y ago

I think my favorite part of this was: It has culminated in the WebBase project whose aims are to maintain a local copy of the World Wide Web Weird to think that a local copy of the internet was actually feasible only twelve years ago.

pjscott 16y ago
And it took up roughly 150 GB. Six average BluRay movies take up as much space on disk as the 1998 internet. Hosting that much on Amazon S3 would cost about $20 per month, not including bandwidth bills. Boggles the mind, doesn't it?
- nkassis 16y ago
  Even 1 SSD disk could hold all of that for cheaper than a 5gb hard drives back then.
- pak 16y ago
  It goes to show that even if space and bandwidth are cheap (and they will only get cheaper), creating content will always be enormously expensive.
chrisbroadfoot 16y ago
Are you implying it isn't feasible today?