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I guess we all kinda knew that, but it's always nice to have a study backing your opinions.

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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

The Internet was tiny in 1998 but so were Google's servers. A little searching seems to show they ran everything on a dozen Pentium PC's with at total of 100GB of drives. That's less power than a single Raspberry Pi today with a $30 SD memory card.