It’s kind of silly, but I still really dig the idea behind torrenting and peer to peer sharing of data. It’s cool to think about any old computer helping pass along some odd bits & bytes of data, whether a goofy drawing or strange story.

  • Max-P
    64•10 months ago

    I think a good chunk of the Internet Archive is available as torrents, at least the software collections and public domain media.

    You can also download a torrent of the whole of Wikipedia, with and without images.

      • Lunch
        12•10 months ago

        Not a direct answer to your question, but this is where I download my stuff from, and it also shows size.

        https://library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng

        Edit: Wikipedia is available there, the full thing is 109.89GB. I wonder how up-to-date it is.

      • Barry Zuckerkorn
        8•10 months ago

        As of last year, English Wikipedia, articles only, text only, was about 22GB compressed (text compresses pretty efficiently), according to the current version of this page:

        As of 2 July 2023, the size of the current version of all articles compressed is about 22.14 GB without media

        Some other sources describe the uncompressed offline copies as being around 50 GB, with another 100 GB or so for images.

        Wikimedia, which includes all the media types, has about 430 TB of media stored.