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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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Usage Anomalies
nicklaszlo Account Info
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Why is november such a popular time to visit ticalc.org?

There is only one BeOS user who has been here recently.

Googlebot used .5% of the bandwidth this week, but I imagine that varies highly from week to week.

Reply to this comment    4 December 2004, 14:56 GMT

Re: Usage Anomalies
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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Beginning of the school year, probably. All the kids now have their new calculators, and they want games.

Reply to this comment    4 December 2004, 18:52 GMT


Re: Re: Usage Anomalies
deathcloud333 Account Info

beggining of the school year? what? crazy much?

Reply to this comment    5 December 2004, 03:50 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Usage Anomalies
calkfreak83  Account Info
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School started in August for me...

Reply to this comment    6 December 2004, 05:32 GMT


Re: Usage Anomalies
aml1358  Account Info
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hehehe only 1 BeOS user...

Reply to this comment    4 December 2004, 20:17 GMT

Re: Ten Terabytes Transferred
mindstorm23 Account Info

Parade??? Uh oh...

Reply to this comment    4 December 2004, 16:45 GMT

Re: Ten Terabytes Transferred
Coolv  Account Info

I think tha a goal should be to cut the time in half (3.5 instead of 7 years) to reach 20 TB.

Reply to this comment    4 December 2004, 19:25 GMT


Re: Re: Ten Terabytes Transferred
aml1358  Account Info
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good idea... at the rate that new users are being added and more calcs are being bought, there would be more file transfers. if you think about it, all of the students who are suddenly required to use a calculator start to use it, but once they have one they won't get rid of it for a long time, allowing them to use it again and again, and at the same time there are more new calc owners all of the time, and then there are the people that are learning about ticalc.org, and they will add more file transfers to the list, and then the file transfer rate will continue to accelerate, so ticalc.org wont have to wait another 7 years or so for 20 TB. they might only have to wait 2 to 4 years. hopefully they will get it before i get out of high school (im in 7th grade) : ) all hail ticalc.org!!!

Reply to this comment    4 December 2004, 20:23 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Ten Terabytes Transferred
Joe Blow  Account Info

it would help if ticalc.org had a big bright link at the top of the front page linking to an other place on the site to teach new calculator users how to download and run things from ticalc.org

Reply to this comment    5 December 2004, 00:34 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Ten Terabytes Transferred
Coolv  Account Info

You mean stupid, retarted people? ;-)

Reply to this comment    5 December 2004, 02:06 GMT


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burntfuse  Account Info

Would that be for the ones who also think that their CD drive is a cupholder?

Reply to this comment    6 December 2004, 22:29 GMT

Re: ¤
Derrick F.  Account Info
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Then what is it for?!

Reply to this comment    6 December 2004, 22:33 GMT


Re: Re: ¤
aml1358  Account Info
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hehehe

Reply to this comment    9 December 2004, 03:19 GMT


Re: ¤
easily_amused  Account Info

That one works well... but then the CD drive breaks :)

Reply to this comment    9 December 2004, 04:35 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Ten Terabytes Transferred
Shawn Zhang Account Info

only if new files continue to come along...

Reply to this comment    5 December 2004, 18:34 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Ten Terabytes Transferred
aml1358  Account Info
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yes, eventually there will be nothing else to program about... but i mean, we will continue to program repeats of existing programs (look in the ti83 plus BASIC section for the following words: "password" "windows"...

/M_

Reply to this comment    6 December 2004, 02:34 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Ten Terabytes Transferred
calkfreak83  Account Info
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Not really.... with all of the new inventions coming out, people will want to do the same thing on their calculator that the new inventions do, so they will attempt to program it. Can you say a see of emulators???

Reply to this comment    6 December 2004, 22:48 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Ten Terabytes Transferred
anykey  Account Info

'a see of emulators'
Okay, I said it. Now what?
BTW, I'd recomend the use of an 'a'

Reply to this comment    7 December 2004, 03:02 GMT


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burntfuse  Account Info

Ah yes, I hate seeing the hundreds of programs in the BASIC archives that all do the same thing...and half of them don't even do it well... >:-|

Reply to this comment    7 December 2004, 22:21 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Ten Terabytes Transferred
aml1358  Account Info
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i would like to support my prediction by saying that the server statistics page has some information on the rising file transfer rate.

Reply to this comment    6 December 2004, 02:31 GMT

Re: Ten Terabytes Transferred
Travis Evans  Account Info

Does downloading entire copies of the mailing list archives that used to be up count toward the amount of data transfered mentioned in the article? ... ;-)

Reply to this comment    4 December 2004, 23:20 GMT


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burntfuse  Account Info

I think it includes EVERYTHING.

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


Re: ¤
deathcloud333 Account Info

including uploads too, i think

Reply to this comment    5 December 2004, 03:54 GMT


Re: Re: ¤
Magnus Hagander  Account Info
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Nope, not uploads. But everything else. (Actually, it counts a little on uploads. It counts the size of the confirmation page. But not the actual upload)

Reply to this comment    5 December 2004, 18:52 GMT


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Morgan Davies  Account Info
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If it did count uploads I don;t ecpect it would be much more. There is about 850 MB of program data in the archives right now. That plus the updates of the files can't be more than a gig or two.

Reply to this comment    6 December 2004, 18:03 GMT

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