What is Digg?148 Comments
- Me0wmix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+64Cool, but 20 gig a bit small?
- Toast1185, on 10/12/2007, -1/+52Excellent math! We don't need no stinkin google calculator.
- EasY_TargeT, on 10/12/2007, -2/+51not according to hard drive makers
- t0ny, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4820GB = 20,480MB :)
- G5Unit91, on 10/12/2007, -0/+38You guys arguing about this=priceless
- av4rice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+37Fill it up with multiple copies of goatse
The future peeps will open it, sigh, and say "Nothing has changed" - rompom7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+36EasY_TargeT is correct, hard drive manufacturers consider 1GB = 1000MB. Whereas everyone else considers 1GB = 1024MB.
Thats why your 80GB will show up as a 72GB drive. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+35I'll transfer the files on to a newer media storage device when the time comes.
Kind of like VHS to DVD. - MasterChi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33"Fergie - Fergalicious
Justin Timberlake - My Love
okgo - Here It Goes Again
Queen - Killer Queen
Beyonce - Irreplaceable"
Oh god, he is submitting the worst possibly songs of our time in the capsule for my future kids to hear and think I was a freaking idiot with the rest of my society :S - zzz@tkz, on 10/12/2007, -5/+35"the file cannot be NSFW (Not Safe For Work)"
I HATE when people do that. What is the point of abbreviating it, if you're going to type out what it means, anyways, and not use it again?
Idiots. - Crass22, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26Will the harddrive survive that long? It better be stored in a clean location.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25I might use some other hard drives I have laying around later on.
- fyre2012, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27I say fill it with what the Internet is known best for...
PR0N!!
At the very least, i think the Paris Hilton video should make an appearance on there. - igraham09, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25why the ***** would you be able to understand the acronym and not the actual phrase?
- Clbck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Yep, put goatse on there.
- superal1394, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17dude, that Gmail is gonna fill up wicked fast.
- shattadeya, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18If you found a hard drive from 30 years ago we would not have any way of reading the data as all the interface back then are almost extinct. 2 do you know how large a HD was 30 years ago??? they probably will look at the 20gb Drive and think it is a 8-track from the 70's as 30 years from now they will be using non volatile ram.
- JeffMcKamey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1630 years ago .1 megabyte was a big deal, I can only imagine what people will think of 20 Gigs in 30 years. An email message might be 20 gigs for a holographic movie...
- Urza_the_Tyrant, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20A great idea carried out by the wrong person.
Its going to fail =/ - Vineman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15I think he'd have bigger problems then worrying about a harddrive.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15It is humorous to see what he considers to be important, both the songs, and Digg Nation.
People won't care about that in THREE years, let alone 30. And the "probably Digg if it is still around" part is even more laughable.
And with the songs...Let's see...you have to choose 5 songs from the hundreds of bands from the past...and you choose TWO Pink Floyd songs?
And also let's credit Imagine with being a Beatles song when it wasn't. Let's confuse the future! - trollenlord, on 10/12/2007, -5/+20hello.jpg !
- AmishRefugee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13if you read the article, he says he will transfer it to future media-storage mechanisms "when the time comes"
and the whole overlords thing is really losing its flavor... - muzzleface09, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13This will surely be forgotten about before 30 years.
- macdaddydwj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13what happens if the guy dies?
- 3rdcoast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12great idea to get free music....
- usernamed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12I sent in a screen cap of Fox News on the night Saddam got hanged...
http://www.foxnews.com/images/root_images/saddam_hanged_600.jpg - nipterink, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14i never thought time capsules were ever about quantity, but that's just me.
- nipterink, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12digg will fill this so fast
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@zzz@tkz: That's how people learn. - Vineman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11If anyone has an up-to-date map of the world, country's and their borders I strongly urge you to upload it.
- bitwise97, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Hope he didn't pick a Maxtor!
- beezn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Queen hasn't been around for 20 years why is that included in the new music?
- orangemarmalade, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11simile-nazi
- jhshukla, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10so that next time they see NSFW, they know what it is.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10oh shut up and read the comments before you
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9He said he would update the media when the time comes.
- jhshukla, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9>> Will the harddrive survive that long? It better be stored in a clean location.
>> all the interface back then are almost extinct.
FAQ:
Q: Won't hard drives be long gone in 2037?
A: I'll transfer the files on to a newer media storage device when the time comes. - mp3dog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I think this guy just wants to see what kind of free stuff (files) he can collect from random people.
- rompom7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8My predictions: -
1) Yes, if you take it to a data recover place. It's just 1 & 0's stored magnetically on a platter, shouldn't be hard to read.
2) Older file formats will still be usable with the right software.
3) Probably not as we know it. I hope we have quantum computing by then. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I'm sending a video file of Steve Ballmer doing the monkeyboy dance.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I sent in the 2007 Google logo and the specs of the latest Macbook Pro.
- NtHammer, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11isn't what he is doing illegal, i mean, does HE have permission from all of those artists to do this??!!!?!?!?!?!!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!
- danielman94, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Hrmm, a Gmail account has about 2.8 gigabytes, he is going to have to download the files quickly, or the Gmail account will fill up. Also, the modern songs...Fergie....ick.
- adc86, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Just stick in something Vista® Capable™ and call it good; keeping in concurrent practice Microsoft's next generation OS will probably be in Beta 2 about 30 years from now.
- Urza_the_Tyrant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Raid his house ;p
- jaspinDroid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8orangemarmalade is actually correct, it is a similie not a metaphor because the word "like" was used in the phrase.
- brotherfranciz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Wait, I'm a bit confused - isn't a 'time capsule' supposed to be representative of the year (five songs from the past...)?
- Klinky, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Actually hard drive manufactuers state 1GB is "1,000,000,000 bytes", which is 953.67MB.
- jasonhazel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5why stop with goatse? lets go all out and put some lemonparty, tubgirl and meatspin on there as well.
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