{"id":241,"date":"2005-10-28T02:16:48","date_gmt":"2005-10-28T06:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2005\/10\/28\/download-size-exponentiation\/"},"modified":"2005-10-28T02:16:48","modified_gmt":"2005-10-28T06:16:48","slug":"download-size-exponentiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2005\/10\/28\/download-size-exponentiation\/","title":{"rendered":"Download size exponentiation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1128'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The size of downloads has been increasing at a record clip.&nbsp;<br \/>\nDownloads have been growing in size since the inception of the<br \/>\nconcept&#8230; today I direct your attention to Wikipedia and Wikimedia<br \/>\ndownloads.&nbsp; Unavailable as torrents, but rather only via http, the<br \/>\nfull downloads at 2+GB each are unwieldy even for people who run<br \/>\ndownloads over their broadband connections at night while they<br \/>\nsleep.&nbsp; Is WP dump size growing faster than avergae pipe<br \/>\nthroughput to homes and workplaces?&nbsp; (yes)&nbsp; What can be done<br \/>\nabout this?&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>How about&#8230; shipping hard drives to people who want them?&nbsp; Guaranteed 5-day delivery; for a reasonable fee (perhaps $80 for a drive + shipping + overhead?)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The size of downloads has been increasing at a record clip.&nbsp; Downloads have been growing in size since the inception of the concept&#8230; today I direct your attention to Wikipedia and Wikimedia downloads.&nbsp; Unavailable as torrents, but rather only via http, the full downloads at 2+GB each are unwieldy even for people who run downloads [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metrics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}