• iopq@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Both Wikipedia and Stack Overflow just have a few dozen fast servers despite being some of the world’s highest trafficked websites

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      4 months ago

      The entire content of the wikipedia fits in a pen drive.

      Streaming video is a lot more expensive than text and images.

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        4 months ago

        That is just the text content, Wikipedia has pictures and videos as well. Not to mention the other Wikimedia projects

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      4 months ago

      Not only that, stackoverflow does it using windows! (or used to, at least)