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I think my favorite part of this was:

It has culminated in the WebBase project whose aims are to maintain a local copy of the World Wide Web

Weird to think that a local copy of the internet was actually feasible only twelve years ago.

And it took up roughly 150 GB. Six average BluRay movies take up as much space on disk as the 1998 internet. Hosting that much on Amazon S3 would cost about $20 per month, not including bandwidth bills.

Boggles the mind, doesn't it?

Even 1 SSD disk could hold all of that for cheaper than a 5gb hard drives back then.

It goes to show that even if space and bandwidth are cheap (and they will only get cheaper), creating content will always be enormously expensive.

Are you implying it isn't feasible today?

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