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What 5 Megabytes of Computer Data Looked Like in 1966 ~ Vintage Everyday

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        The average modern website takes more than this per page to display its content.. it's absurd.

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          It still looks like that but it did then, too.

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            With that even less you could run the internet

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              She looks like she KNOWS you're thinking of taking one single punchcard from the middle of the pile, thus rendering the whole thing useless.

              And she's not having your shit.

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                I'm over here managing a local back up of about half a TB of pics and videos. Also - I moved from Google Photos to Ente. So much data and I know people out there have way more than I do. Crazy to think about.

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                  She looks like she KNOWS you're thinking of taking one single punchcard from the middle of the pile, thus rendering the whole thing useless.

                  And she's not having your shit.

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                  Yes, she certainly has the look of someone who knows what a huge amount of work these piles of cards represent. There would have been no turbulent kids running around these.

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                    Yes, she certainly has the look of someone who knows what a huge amount of work these piles of cards represent. There would have been no turbulent kids running around these.

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                    Look at those forearms. Absolutely she knows how much work this is. Also absolutely she numbered them all in pencil.

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                      She looks like she KNOWS you're thinking of taking one single punchcard from the middle of the pile, thus rendering the whole thing useless.

                      And she's not having your shit.

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                      She lives in the Mary Poppins house and has to stabilize her stack of cards like this every time the neighbour fires the canon.

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                        Seems about right. One card had 80 columns, a byte for each one, so 5,000,000 bytes divided by 80 would be 62,500 cards.

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                          It still looks like that but it did then, too.

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                          What would be truly amazing would be a 5MB variant of this picture so no matter what it always looks like 5MB

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                              She looks like she KNOWS you're thinking of taking one single punchcard from the middle of the pile, thus rendering the whole thing useless.

                              And she's not having your shit.

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                              one can number them with a pen, and then find the missing one or guess what was there

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                                The average modern website takes more than this per page to display its content.. it's absurd.

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                                And most can be replaced with nothing with no loss in value

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                                  With all the onlookers.

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                                    Is the nice lady still inside?

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                                      The average modern website takes more than this per page to display its content.. it's absurd.

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                                      The average modern website steals more personal data than this from you when you visit

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                                        one can number them with a pen, and then find the missing one or guess what was there

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                                        Ooohh, did they have any redundancy in them?

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                                          Ooohh, did they have any redundancy in them?

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                                          Yes, it's called human brain. If it makes sense that a missing punch card would contain jump to address from some register, then make another one such.

                                          I'm joking.

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