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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The internet sure has grown. Some day it'll be too big to even fit inside OP's mom.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] -4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

OP's mom's pussy is so big, Thanos had to snap twice.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I'd clap twice

[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There was a time it would’ve fit on a floppy

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is really nonsensical. It could fit on a piece of paper in font size 8 if you go back far enough and "stretch" the definition of Internet.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Not true. The first document on the internet was, in fact, 7 pages in 8pt font.

It was the New Purchase brochure from a Packard Bell 286 4MHz from Circuit City transcribed into .doc format.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

Yeah, but if you wrote really small on a note card you could have used the entire internet on a test!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

And were all 7 of those pages uploaded at the same time? Ha, gotchu now! (But for real, is .doc that old?)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

According to wikipedia, "Microsoft has used the extension since 1983."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Lol, no idea

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

“Congratulations on buying a Packard Bell computer. Would you like to register me?”

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Anyone remember that offline Wikipedia reader that had the whole text of English wiki on it? I always thought it was neat.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiReader

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You can still download an archive of Wikipedia today, and it's smaller than you'd expect

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

How big do I expect it to be?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

At least twelve megabytes. Probably even more.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Bigger than it actually is

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Microsoft Encarta 98

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Nowadays there's Kiwix

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://m.piped.video/watch?v=1lRI35gKSPA

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The power of the sun in the palm of my hand.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

The unmatched power of the sun, even?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The power of Sun Microsystems in the palm of my hand

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Unix noises

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

drinks a cup of Java

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

Back in like 2005 or 2006, I remember posting an article to Fark about a company that wanted to make a laptop that had the entire internet cached on it so you could browse the web offline. That was almost 20 years ago and I remember saying "they have seriously underestimated the amount of porn on the internet."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

The entirety of the internet on my toilet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

One single html page? I guess, yes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

The internet or the world wide web?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Get rid of videos and we probably still could.

Wikipedia is ridiculously small

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

This is not a shower thought

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No it wouldn't since it wasn't made at thr time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

English not your first language? No worries, see the "would have"? That phrase signifies a hypothetical - I'll leave you to ponder what hypothetical situation could be meant in this particular case, but spoiler: it involves comparing features of things that were constructed in different time frames.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Why don't you go figure out what a shower thought is before berating this guy.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 7 months ago

No it doesn't

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

The Mistral language model is 3.8gb and has a crazy amount of knowledge