YouTube, Wikipedia, and Archive.org are the modern day library of Alexandria
YouTube, Wikipedia, and Archive.org are the modern day library of Alexandria
Had this thought the other day and tbh it's horrifying to think about the implications of one, or God forbid all, of them going down.
Stackoverflow too but that only applies to nerds haha
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Wikipedia essentially can't be destroyed without a global catastrophe that would mean we have way worse problems. Wikipedia is downloadable. Meaning the ENTIRE Wikipedia. And so there are many copies of it stored all around the planet.
If you have an extra 150 GB of space available then you can download a personal copy for yourself
https://www.howtogeek.com/260023/how-to-download-wikipedia-for-offline-at-your-fingertips-reading/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia
It's under 25 GB, too.
But that's just for the text version without media files
25gb of text is a lot dang!
I assume that contains all the different languages. So most articles will repeat the same information like 10 times or whatever for all the different common languages. Still a huge amount of text though!
Nope, 25 gb is just english language wikipedia compressed, no images. All the other languages are smaller.
Ahh compressed so it’s like… a lot times a lot of text
Is that compressed? I assume, they let you download zip files?
With scraping, you can fully download YouTube, too.
You just need an additional 10 EB of storage space, Millions of different IP addresses, a law firm to deffend against Alphabet, lots of time and energy, ...
I think i have an old thumb drive with 10 exabytes free on it
You left that in your other pajamas, Professor Farnsworth.
Having just signed up for storage from Hertzer for nextcloud, that's insane. It'd be cheap as hell to just... Have my own Wikipedia.