Larry and Sergey's CS349 at Stanford (last updated Oct 1998)

Re:Larry and Sergey's CS349 at Stanford (last updated Oct 1998) by javanix on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @07:45PM (#1960462)

I think my favorite part of this was:

It has culminated in the WebBase project whose aims are to maintain a local copy of the World Wide Web

Weird to think that a local copy of the internet was actually feasible only twelve years ago.

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Re:Larry and Sergey's CS349 at Stanford (last updated Oct 1998) by pjscott on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @10:34PM (#1960892)

And it took up roughly 150 GB. Six average BluRay movies take up as much space on disk as the 1998 internet. Hosting that much on Amazon S3 would cost about $20 per month, not including bandwidth bills.

Boggles the mind, doesn't it?

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Re:Larry and Sergey's CS349 at Stanford (last updated Oct 1998) by pak on Thursday December 02, 2010 @01:51PM (#1963200)

It goes to show that even if space and bandwidth are cheap (and they will only get cheaper), creating content will always be enormously expensive.

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Re:Larry and Sergey's CS349 at Stanford (last updated Oct 1998) by nkassis on Thursday December 02, 2010 @12:47AM (#1961174)

Even 1 SSD disk could hold all of that for cheaper than a 5gb hard drives back then.

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Re:Larry and Sergey's CS349 at Stanford (last updated Oct 1998) by chrisbroadfoot on Thursday December 02, 2010 @01:11AM (#1961243)

Are you implying it isn't feasible today?

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