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I don’t know anyone remember but some years ago I remember seeing a file compressed from 1GB to 1mb. And I was amazed.

• jl6 7y ago
  42.zip?
  • dvhh 7y ago
    even more dangerous for bot https://rehmann.co/blog/10-gb-27-kb-gzip-file-present-http-scanners/ https://rehmann.co/blog/10-gb-27-kb-gzip-file-present-http-s...
• scarejunba 7y ago
  On the edonkey network, the file size would be reported raw but the clients could compress and transfer chunks to each other. Some guy had created an empty IL-2 sturmovik iso and seeded it. We lived at a government facility with ill-policed high speed (for the time) internet but even then I knew that I didn’t have a 400 Mbps connection. Maybe 2002/2003. The whole thing only transferred a few kB. It looked like an entire disc though.
• dymk 7y ago
  Maybe I'm missing a reference or joke here, but the size of a file means little with respect to how much it can be compressed. You can get a 1 petabyte file down to a few bytes if it's just `\0` repeated over and over.