What does 2000 days of retention look like?
2000 days = 5.5 years = 48,000 hours = 2,880,000 minutes
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That means...if you finish 1 medium pizza in 20 minutes, in 2000 days you could eat 144,000 pizzas!
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That means...after you eat all of those pizzas, if you run a kilometer in 8 minutes, you can run 360,000 kilometers!
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That means...Giganews has lived through 68 full moons and no werewolf attacks so far. Phew!
But seriously, we store an estimated 25 petabytes of Usenet messages.
There are roughly 45 billion articles stored on our servers and on average, we receive between 450 and 500 articles per second. In fact, in the past 2000 days, 1 exabyte of data has been transferred.
That's incredible!
So what does all this data look like?
25PB = 2.815 x 10^16 bytes = A LOT
The Library of Congress' Web Archive stores about 422 terabytes of data. We store 60 times that amount.
An average 3.5 inch floppy disk (remember those things?) can hold 1.44 MB of data. Put all of the data we are storing onto floppy disks and you'd have 18,641,351,111 floppies.
= 10,000,000 floppies
If we used 500GB hard drives to store our data, we could stack them higher than 8 Empire State Buildings.
2000 days ago the world did not have...
- Foursquare
- Burj Khalifa
- Wi-fi on planes
- iPad
- 3D TV
- 3D Camera
- Square
- Smart Thermostat
- Kickstarter
- Snapchat
- Controller-Free Gaming
- Windows 7 and 8
- Google Glass
Check out what Giganews has accomplished in the past 2000 days and beyond!
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News.texas.net began offering Usenet news to the public
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ISPs started outsourcing to News.texas.net - Olywa.net and Sedona.net were the first customers
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Created separate domain for Usenet outsourcing: Giganews.com
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Incorporated Giganews, Inc.
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Comcast chooses Giganews as their outsourced Usenet provider
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Giganews drove a new standard in newsgroup retention with 30-day retention.
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Adelphia, a large cable company, chose Giganews to deliver Usenet newsgroups to over one million high-speed Internet subscribers
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Giganews sponsored backend infrastructure for Mozilla Foundation's newsgroups
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Giganews became the first Usenet provider to deploy encrypted Usenet access (utilizing SSL)
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Giganews implemented expanded support for 256 Bit SSL encryption
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Giganews hit the century mark with 100 day retention upgrade
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A billion articles on Usenet in over 100,000 Newsgroups
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Giganews turned 10 years old and had a party to celebrate!
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Usenet growth revealed need for 64-bit based article numbering
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Giganews joined London Internet Exchange via LINX
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Giganews doubled capacity at the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX)
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Giganews connected to DE-CIX, opened peering in Germany
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Giganews launched Usenet infrastructure in Hong Kong!
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Giganews attended the Campus Party in Brazil giving all attendees free Usenet connections
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Giganews Usenet broke the world record with 1 year of binary newsgroup retention
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VyprVPN available - Giganews becomes the first Usenet provider to bundle VPN with Usenet
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Giganews with Data Foundry hosted 2010's first NANOG meeting focused on Internet advancements and trends
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Giganews sets a world record with 2 years of high-quality binary retention
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Giganews announced Mimo Beta Usenet Browser - the first Usenet Browser to be bundled with Usenet
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L2TP/IPsec added for VyprVPN - free for Diamond Users
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Giganews becomes the first Usenet provider to hit 1000 days of retention!
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Dump Truck Storage available - Giganews becomes the first Usenet service to bundle online storage with Usenet
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Giganews Control Panel App for Android released
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Giganews Control Panel App for iOS released
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Giganews reached 1,500 days of Usenet retention - new world record
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Giganews celebrated 5 years of retention - new world record
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Giganews users get access to VyprVPN 2.0 apps
What's the most memorable thing you've done in the past 2000 days?
What about you? We would love to see what incredible and fun things you've done in the past 2000 days! Upload a photo, tell us a story or leave a quick comment on our Facebook page about something amazing you've accomplished in the last 2000 days.
We are constantly working to make Giganews the world's best Usenet service and truly appreciate the great customers who stand behind us. We will continue to improve Usenet and just like our retention, we have no plans on stopping.
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