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Re:Messages in the Deep – The Story of the Underwater Internet by peterkelly on Sunday July 27, 2014 @07:59AM (#8092525)
> and each day route a quantity of data equivalent to several hundred US Libraries of Congress

I think it's about time we introduced a new unit of measurement for data

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Re:Messages in the Deep – The Story of the Underwater Internet by mgkimsal on Sunday July 27, 2014 @01:04PM (#8093270)
It's also been a changing target. "Size of the library of Congress" in 1996 is not what it was in 2012, for example - the comparison doesn't carry well over time.

Football stadium of encyclopedias?

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