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I was happy to see the comparison to an iPhone.

I was happy to see the comparison to an iPhone. At least it's from the 21st century. For many years, everything was compared to "The Library of Congress". I got real tired of reading cliches like how some fiber link "can transfer the entire 2 million books of the library of congress in 10 seconds". Or how some new storage device can "store the entire library of congress". Comparisons like that never made any sense to me. Did they mean just the text characters? With or without compression? Surely images weren't included? Doesn't the library also have stuff like maps? Why weren't they included? Etc. :-)

Posted by PhantomGremlin on Jan 9, 2015, 12:51 AM

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I was happy to see the comparison to an iPhone.

PhantomGremlinJan 9, 2015, 12:51 AM

I was happy to see the comparison to an iPhone. At least it's from the 21st century. For many years, everything was compared to "The Library of Congress". I got real tired of reading cliches like how some fiber link "can transfer the entire 2 million books of the library of congress in 10 seconds". Or how some new storage device can "store the entire library of congress". Comparisons like that never made any sense to me. Did they mean just the text characters? With or without compression? Surely images weren't included? Doesn't the library also have stuff like maps? Why weren't they included? Etc. :-)

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