Re:What Wal-Mart Knows About Customers' Habits (2004)
by ericpauley on Sunday August 12, 2018 @07:14PM
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I find this statistic dubious at best, given that by 2004 the internet had hundreds of millions of users. Even if we're generous and assume they mean public data on the internet, that'd be less than 1MB of data per person.
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Re:What Wal-Mart Knows About Customers' Habits (2004)
by mattnewton on Sunday August 12, 2018 @07:58PM
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How many people were passive consumers then though? Also, hough much lighter weight was the content? This is before smartphone videos were being uploaded after all, 2004 was still an era where you might have a page on your personal site for your dog and everything was static html + css.
Re:What Wal-Mart Knows About Customers' Habits (2004)
by autokad on Monday August 13, 2018 @02:48AM
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I guess its subjective by what they mean by "the Internet has less than half as much data". I imagine what existed on file sharing sites was more (if that counts). As of 2007, I had 1 TB of specific types of content, which would have been a tiny tiny fraction of what was on sites like morpheus/kazaa at the time in 2004.