Comment by mikewarot
2 days ago
An actual implementation of Memex. That is, a web browser that records everything to a local cache, so that at any point later, you can annotate it, and give full and complete copies of what you've seen to your friends.
After a set period of time, things without annotations could roll off into the trash bin, waiting to be purged.
Given the size of modern disk systems, it should be no problem to store everything someone watches, reads, listens to, and decides to keep, for as long as they like.
My network has downloaded 1.08TB of bandwidth over the last month, according to my ISP's router. Now, that is across multiple devices, but my laptop with its 1TB internal storage is likely at least 1/3rd of that. Which mean given no OS or local files, I'd be able to store about 9 months of my browsing in your proposed product. With OS and local files, I'm looking at closer to 1-2 months. This isn't really feasible for average consumers.
To make it reasonable, most content would be purged after a set amount of time. The other option is to re-encode video, graphics, etc.. at a lower fidelity