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Ten Terabytes Transferred
Posted by Michael on 4 December 2004, 04:19 GMT

December 4, 2004 is a date that will be remembered around the world forever. Parades will be held in the streets of New York, Paris, and Pago Pago. Future children will celebrate each year with their parents, holding wild calculator festivals. Why? Because this evening ticalc.org passed further into the realm of undeniable awesomeness with a major bandwidth milestone.

During the period from April 14, 1997 to December 4, 2004, ticalc.org transferred 10 TB of data. That's ten terabytes (equivalent to 10,240 GB). We are currently averaging 6.12 GB of data transferred per day, or 42.82 GB per week. You can find all of these statistics and others on our Web Server Statistics page. A few other interesting pieces of trivia:

  • Hypothetically, it would take a TI-83 Plus approximately 291 years to transfer 10 TB through the link port. If you used TI Connect, it'd probably take a millennium and then crash halfway through.
  • The average video rental store holds about 8 TB worth of video data.
  • It is estimated that the books of the Library of Congress would amount to 20 TB if digitized. Thus, ticalc.org has transferred "half a Library of Congress".
We wish to thank all of the people who have visited ticalc.org and contributed to this milestone.

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Re: Ten Terabytes Transferred
W Hibdon  Account Info
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hopefully we will all see this site hit one full library of congress.

-W-

Reply to this comment    4 December 2004, 05:25 GMT


Re: Re: Ten Terabytes Transferred
Morgan Davies  Account Info
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It might not take 8 years either. This is based solely on the fact that the yearly requests continue to increase at astonishing rates.

Reply to this comment    4 December 2004, 09:17 GMT

All Hail Ticalc.org
anthony C  Account Info

Hip, Hip, Horrrayyyy!! Hip, Hip, Horayyyy!! Hip, Hip, Horrayyyy!!

(Grabs large, nice cold soda and sits down to computer to download every file)

Reply to this comment    4 December 2004, 05:52 GMT


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burntfuse  Account Info

Hmmm...I wonder if someone could write a java program to do that, getting a list of all the folders, then going into each one in turn, going into all the subfolders, the sub-subfolders, etc. then requesting each file in the folders?

Reply to this comment    5 December 2004, 01:26 GMT

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burntfuse  Account Info

(that is, if it didn't have a stack overflow first) :-)

Reply to this comment    5 December 2004, 01:29 GMT


Re: ¤
Magnus Hagander  Account Info
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Yes. Many many people have written such programs. Long before Java existed as well - don't see where that got into things.

Reply to this comment    5 December 2004, 18:51 GMT


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burntfuse  Account Info

I meant so that it would increase the data transferred from ticalc.org so that it could reach 20 TB more quickly. :-)

Reply to this comment    6 December 2004, 22:25 GMT


Re: ¤
Magnus Hagander  Account Info
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Right.

Oh, and please don't do this :-)

Reply to this comment    7 December 2004, 18:46 GMT


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burntfuse  Account Info

Don't worry, it was only speculation. ;-)

Reply to this comment    7 December 2004, 22:17 GMT

Obligatory /. "humor"
Barrett Anderson Account Info
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6.12 GB??? what is that? can you put that into perspective for me? how many libraries of congress would that be equivalent to?

Reply to this comment    4 December 2004, 10:15 GMT

Re: Obligatory /. "humor"
Sam3.14 Account Info
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That's just about 10 CDs.

Reply to this comment    4 December 2004, 12:07 GMT

Re: Obligatory /. "humor"
Travis Evans  Account Info

Or about 1.5 DVDs. Or about 4250 3.5" floppy disks. Or (rough estimate) about 2 to 5 million sheets of paper. :-)

Reply to this comment    4 December 2004, 23:18 GMT

Re: Re: Obligatory /. "humor"
anykey  Account Info

That's a waste of trees. And floppy disks, for that matter. :^)

Reply to this comment    5 December 2004, 02:55 GMT


Re: Re: Obligatory /. "humor"
Shawn Zhang Account Info

Or, about 1/6 of a standard hard drive.

Reply to this comment    5 December 2004, 18:33 GMT

Re: Obligatory /. "humor"
deathcloud333 Account Info

i assume you meant something else. hopefully.

Reply to this comment    5 December 2004, 03:44 GMT


Re: Re: Obligatory /. "humor"
Barrett Anderson Account Info
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I'm pretty sure that I said what I meant and meant what I said.

Reply to this comment    5 December 2004, 07:58 GMT

Re: Obligatory /. "humor"
anykey  Account Info

I have the library of congress on my Ipod. :^)

Reply to this comment    7 December 2004, 02:53 GMT


Re: Re: Obligatory /. "humor"
Barrett Anderson Account Info
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That's quite an impressive compression ratio. 1000 to 1?

Reply to this comment    8 December 2004, 19:21 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Obligatory /. "humor"
Teddy Davis Account Info

I'd say
The 60gb ipod photo is a wimp comared to the amount of data transfered over ticalc. Can I get that compression utility

Reply to this comment    21 December 2004, 02:07 GMT


Re: Obligatory /. "humor"
slimey_limey  Account Info
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A gigabyte is approximately the equivalent of one pickup truck full of paper. Put that in your pipes and smoke it, iPod owners!

--
Slimey's Back!

Reply to this comment    18 December 2004, 23:46 GMT

Go Googlebot!
nicklaszlo Account Info
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How much of this transfer was due to bots? Has googlebot crawl expansion excelerated bandwidth usage lately?

I know ArXiv.org, which has a much larger database also based on HTML, has had problems with bots using to much bandwidth. Their approach has been to attack back. (link)

Funny quote:
"Presumably you neither would be terribly thrilled if every aspiring encyclopedia editor were to send a gang of blind 600 lb gorillas to your library, armed with a photocopy machine."

Reply to this comment    4 December 2004, 14:30 GMT


Re: Go Googlebot!
deathcloud333 Account Info

um... who what or when said this qoute?

Reply to this comment    5 December 2004, 03:47 GMT


Re: Re: Go Googlebot!
bizpile  Account Info
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You should have followed his link.

Reply to this comment    5 December 2004, 23:25 GMT

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