2026-09-18T20:22:22.090077Z

What is something that's crazier than the wildest dreams of any ~1970s nerd, but exists today? I'll start with an easy one:

2026-09-19T04:32:13.038022Z

me (1999): I just want 1GB of ram and 1TB of hard drive, I can’t see a world where more than that would be necessary.

We were ripping DVD’s to 200mb divx at the time and an OTA cartoon might only be 25mb because SD+compression.

2026-09-19T10:21:26.197848Z

Yeah, some anime are now ~~400~~ 1 GB per episode. That’s what bad encoding settings do to you.

Edit: mind fart. Some Fate series are 1.2 GB per episode. 400 MB is high-ish, ~300 MB in mpeg, ~120 MB in avif webm.

2026-09-19T12:54:15.298285Z

Also a lot higher resolution and bitrate… And not to speak of all the advanced in compression since divx!

2026-09-19T14:31:45.722277Z

Back in time man. 2GB drives were monsters, screens were all 1024x768