There was a time when the entirety of the internet would have fit onto the device you're currently browsing on.
There was a time when the entirety of the internet would have fit onto the device you're currently browsing on.
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The internet or the world wide web?
Well both technically, but at different times
I'm not so sure a single phone could have handled the internet even in infancy. You'd need at least 2. :p
Run a VM in the phone that connects to the host over an OTG cable. Boom, internet
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.
It was a joke about needing to create a network, which requires at least 2 devices talking to each other.
But he was talking about storage