The Internet is big. Remember those posts about what it would look like if you printed wikipedia – or just the featured articles.
Here are some infographics about what it would look like, and take, to print the whole shebang. Probably including my blog. It’s like, totally on the Internet man… There are a couple more of those here.Tag: hard copy wikipedia
Hard copy Wikipedia: the next edition
I’ve tracked down the original home of the printed out Wikipedia (or at least what I think is the original post). Turns out it was only the “featured articles” that were printed.
Here’s what it would look like if the whole thing was printed using this criteria…
“If you were to print out the whole thing (not just the featured articles), this is what it would look like based on volumes 25cm high and 5cm thick (some 400 leaves), each page having two columns, each columns having 80 rows, and each row having 50 characters.”
Wikipedia in real life
Wikipedia is massive. This massive (according to this visualisation)… this would be a hard copy to carry.