Well not quite but close. I’m holding a hard disk that has ALL of Wikipedia’s text in 10 different languages.

Yes you can download all of Wikipedia and yes it can easily fit in a hard drive. Isn’t that amazing? Text is incredibly dense compared to images and video. Around 22 GiB for English Wikipedia alone and 56 GiB for the 10 languages I downloaded.

I also have all of Wiktionary in the same hard drive. It’s around 16.4 GiB.

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    9 months ago

    Uh, wikipedia is what the internet is.

    Wikipedia’s not a glimpse of a better world, it’s a glimpse of our current, existing world. Because wikipedia exists.

    It’s not like that hard drive came through a portal from another universe.