Re:What the Web Said Yesterday
by userbinator on Monday January 19, 2015 @10:40PM
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This essay is about two hundred thousand bytes.
In disbelief at the fact that I did not feel like I had read 200KB of text, I had to check and it was around an order of magnitude off. The page with the markup included is around half of that.
I suppose that in this era of GB and TB, people are going to overestimate a bit more.
Re:What the Web Said Yesterday
by desp on Monday January 19, 2015 @11:31PM
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Likely they were writing the essay in a desktop editor and are referring to the size of the file on disk (potentially including references, revision data, etc). In plaintext the essay seems to be ~36kb.
In disbelief at the fact that I did not feel like I had read 200KB of text, I had to check and it was around an order of magnitude off. The page with the markup included is around half of that.
I suppose that in this era of GB and TB, people are going to overestimate a bit more.