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by moralestapia 253 days ago
Hey, Q., so what's the size of the internet archive?
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For the purposes of ballpark, between 150-200 petabytes of unique data, probably on the lowish end of that last I checked.
it is large enough that I am wondering if the data captured by the actual physical magnetic charges has a heft, that a person could feel. obviously the hardware would fill a house or something, but at what point does the worlds data become a discernable physical reality, at least in theory
I'm betting exabyte or close maybe