Basically the title. The fact that we can read an encyclopedia entry on the economic history of the Netherlands from our phone is crazy. Scrolling over to a random island in the middle of the Atlantic to experience a virtual street tour is insane. There are even websites that let you see live security camera footage (shoutout to EarthCamTV). We have so much information that we take for granted.

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    25·
    23 days ago

    they have different tiers, mostly separated by how many pictures are included.

    when I used the archives, the smallest was almost 3 GB, and the largest was 80 GB?

    let me check.

    full wikipedia is 110GB now.

    Wikipedia in simple English is still only 2 and 1/2 GB.

    here are all the libraries in English:

    https://library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng&category=wikipedia

      • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        15·
        23 days ago

        I couldn’t believe it. back when I first got it, maybe a decade ago, I think it was only around 45 or 50 GB.

        I was very confused, and figured okay, I’ll just download all of Wikipedia.

        and then I freaking had all of Wikipedia on my phone for years and it was amazing.

        every time there was a reference I didn’t get, every time there was anything I didn’t get, I pulled up Wikipedia and boom there it was.

        and I travel a lot, so I don’t always have data, but I had Wikipedia offline.

        it truly is amazing!

        this is really make me want to get an expandable storage phone again.