hopefully we will all see this site hit one full library of congress.

-W-

It might not take 8 years either. This is based solely on the fact that the yearly requests continue to increase at astonishing rates.

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

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

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?

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

Yes. Many many people have written such programs. Long before Java existed as well - don't see where that got into things.

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

Right.

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

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

6.12 GB??? what is that? can you put that into perspective for me? how many libraries of congress would that be equivalent to?

That's just about 10 CDs.

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

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

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

i assume you meant something else. hopefully.

I'm pretty sure that I said what I meant and meant what I said.

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

That's quite an impressive compression ratio. 1000 to 1?

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

A gigabyte is approximately the equivalent of one pickup truck full of paper. Put that in your pipes and smoke it, iPod owners!

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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."

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

You should have followed his link.