• Valmond@lemmy.world
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    Just a couple of years ago I was sent a dataset by mail, around 1TB on a hard drive.

    Later I worked on visualization of large datasets, we didn’t have the space to store them locally because they were up to a PB.

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      We’re storing data in peanut butter? Please tell me there’s jam involved.

      /j it’s amazing we’re talking about petabytes. My first computer had like 600 meg. (Pentium 486 cobbled out of spare- old- parts from my dad’s junk”Parts” rack.)

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        😁 ya my first “computer” was a ZX-81 with 1kB of ram, type too much and it was full! A card with a whopping 16kB later came to the rescue.

        It’s been a wild time in history.

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      Mail dataset in standard-compliant way. Like RFC1149. Don’t forget that carrier should be avian carrier.

      we didn’t have the space to store them locally because they were up to a PB.

      Local is very vague word. It can be argued, that anything, that doesn’t fit into L1 cache is not local.

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        Local as not in the building in that case :-)

        RFC1149 lol yeah wasn’t that a norwegian experiment at some sub-bits per second? Thanks for making me remember!

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          Some african with megabits per second. Which was much faster than any local ISP.