[nippoo]

This is super-cool! I found "enough to transmit the entire digitized Library of Congress three times every second" to be a really weird comparison though - I'm used to text being really small and compressible, and I doubt many people have an intuitive grasp of how much One Scanned Library of Congress is. How many hour-long Netflix/YouTube episodes per second, on the other hand...

[faitswulff]

As of March 2019, Netflix is reported [0] to have 60 petabytes of data. Google tells me that 60 petabytes / 250 terabits per second comes out to 32 minutes. I’m not sure that translates to the layperson who might not appreciate what a petabyte is, but in the space of a single show you could theoretically transfer the contents of Netflix’s entire library over this pipe. So basically almost enough bandwidth to transfer the average user’s porn stash in a single day!

[0]: https://zeenea.com/metacat-netflix-makes-their-big-data-acce...

[jlund-molfese]

I agree, but somehow a LoC became a well-established unit of measuring data transfer[1]. So maybe less-technical readers are used to hearing that comparison.

1 - https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2012/04/a-library-of-congres...

[lostlogin]

This can join the others - Olympic swimming pool, football fields, London bus, Empire State Building.

[supertrope]

War and Peace is a few MB. A “YouTuber” gossiping in HD is more bits. Luckily video services rely heavily on on-net caches.

[ehsankia]

How long to transfer all of Youtube? ;)