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YouTube, Wikipedia, and Archive.org are the modern day library of Alexandria

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Had this thought the other day and tbh it’s horrifying to think about the implications of one, or God forbid all, of them going down.
Stackoverflow too but that only applies to nerds haha

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Beacon@fedia.io
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I assume that contains all the different languages. So most articles will repeat the same information like 10 times or whatever for all the different common languages. Still a huge amount of text though!

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Nope, 25 gb is just english language wikipedia compressed, no images. All the other languages are smaller.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents

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Ahh compressed so it’s like… a lot times a lot of text

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