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Question: How Big is Instructables?
CameronSS asked: How big is Instructables? Counting all of the text, images, sounds, videos, etc. that are stored on the site, how much space does it take up? A few gigabytes? A few hundred gigabytes? A few terabytes?
How big do you think Instructables is? The About page will tell you how many employees and associates Instructables has, but how big do you think Instructables is, information-wise?
This is like a jelly-bean counting contest, except on a much bigger scale and with inedible jellybeans.
Guess away!
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12 years ago
Well, I don't know how big it is, but to me is information, that gives is priceless...
12 years ago
I'd say... and I'm just guessing here, 1 instructabyte. What's an instructabyte you ask? An instructabyte is the size of Instructables Counting all of the text, images, sounds, videos, etc. that are stored on the site.
Haha, but I actually have no idea.
Reply 12 years ago
I must agree..
Reply 12 years ago
hmm... you sure?
Reply 12 years ago
Good one! *applauds*
12 years ago
Too big for me to count.
12 years ago
Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real 'wow, that's big', time. Infinity is just so big that by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here.
Reply 12 years ago
He's Texan. He ought to know about big.
Reply 12 years ago
I was, of course, quoting the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Reply 12 years ago
I gotta read that someday...*scribbles on library list*
Reply 12 years ago
Do indeed read it. Douglas Adams is/was a genius of comedy...
Reply 12 years ago
As he will always be!
42!
Reply 12 years ago
We apologize for the inconvenience!
Reply 12 years ago
That's alright...
Everything's Amazingly amazing.
Reply 12 years ago
The books are better than the film, but the BBC TV show is better than the book, and the original radio series is better than them all.
Reply 12 years ago
that doesnt make sense
Reply 12 years ago
Try reading from the start of the thread...
Reply 12 years ago
i meant your sentence. ive read hitchhikers.
Reply 12 years ago
Hitchhikers started as a radio series in the UK, which became a trilogy of books in five parts. The radio series is better than the books.
There was also a BBC TV series.
In order of quality, best to worst, it goes:
1) Radio series
2) TV series
3) Books
4) Film
See?
The radio series may be available on CD.
Reply 12 years ago
Hehe - I've watching the TV show before. If you caught it in the film, the original Marvin was waiting in line on the Vogon planet. I've never heard the radio series, but my dad says he's got tapes of it.
Reply 12 years ago
Ha, Marvin in the line was the highlight of the whole film for me.
Reply 12 years ago
The TV show is good, they have it at my library. Unfortunetly my father feels it insults his intelligence...
Reply 12 years ago
Would you say the book or the movie was better?
Reply 12 years ago
The five books were unparalleled better.
Reply 12 years ago
I'll have to try those out next time I go to the library!
Reply 12 years ago
Douglas Adams rules!
Reply 12 years ago
Indeed he does...
12 years ago
btw, anybody live in washington?
12 years ago
For some reason, I'm the only user in my city. And one of about a handful in my state. It's sad. I need to spread the good word. Where's the book already?
12 years ago
I just realized, we never got an answer.
Reply 12 years ago
Stiiiiiiiil nothing...We're anxiously waiting...at least I am...waiting...
Reply 12 years ago
Hey, I gave you the answer - 660cm2 - I measured it and everything.
Reply 12 years ago
Depends on what browser you're using.
Reply 12 years ago
Or what your resolution is.
Reply 12 years ago
On a scale of 1-10, my resolution is usually "firm".
Reply 12 years ago
Haha...
Reply 12 years ago
Well played.
Reply 12 years ago
Actually, it depends on which monitor I'm using...
12 years ago
*holds up number of fingers* this many big
Reply 12 years ago
ROFL!!!
12 years ago
Calculating.... I'd say only ~120GB forms and instructables are only ~60GB
12 years ago
I thought you ment how popular... in the latest popular mechanics look at page 18... i think... I don't have it with me right now
12 years ago
You might want to batten down your robots.txt before some enterprising compsci like myself gets ideas and writes a crawler to get the answer accurate to the byte... I don't see a question like that as a guessing game, more as a "How would you go about writing a simple web crawler to accurately determine the total size of a large Web 2.0 website such as www.instructables.com? (20 marks)"
Reply 12 years ago
I was about to say: crawl it. =)
Reply 12 years ago
I'm not sure who I'd get in more trouble with, my ISP or Instructables :P It'd be a lot easier to crawl those index pages (should they exist), parse out the file sizes and sum them up, assuming they're rounded properly you should get reasonable accuracy.
Reply 12 years ago
I think the robots.txt file for instructables is restricted anyway.
Reply 12 years ago
Um...that wouldn't make sense, really...
Reply 12 years ago
User-agent: Googlebot Disallow: /include/ Disallow: /account/ Disallow: /you/ Disallow: /admin/ Disallow: /pages/ Disallow: /static/ Disallow: /ajax/ Disallow: /META-INF/ Disallow: /WEB-INF/ Disallow: /you/ Disallow: /edit/ What would be the point of a restricted robots.txt?
Reply 12 years ago
Well PKM go ahead, my guess is as much a guess, however I think people are over guessing, images are instantly compressed, I suppose it depends on how you look at the site, what you see, every page or looking at every file...
Reply 12 years ago
as long as you make an instructable out of it...