Ask HN: Do you have more or less than 1Mb text of your own writing?

Of all that you have written in ypur lifetime, do you have in your possession more or less than 1Mb (180,000 words) of text?

Printed, blogged, work-related, personal diary, fiction practice, emails you personally wrote (not so much copies of boilerplate, or coauthoring when added for other reasons than actual written words).

Asking out of curiosity.

2 points | by cwmoore 3 hours ago

7 comments

  • KashifNY 3 hours ago
    Yes i do, i like to put down my thoughts in writing as well as planning out strategies and such as i found out that i could not find a pen when i needed it much which was a dilemma of mine and so i started just using my laptop and phone to jot down what came to mind and was worth recording
  • dlcarrier 55 minutes ago
    It doesn't take long to build up that many words on online forums, like Hacker News.
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    • cwmoore 1 minute ago
      Thanks for your input. Apparently it does! There’s another commenter on this thread who found less than that in their 10 year history.
  • billybuckwheat 1 hour ago
    Far, far more than 1 MB.
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    • cwmoore 2 minutes ago
      Thanks, that’s a lot. Can I ask for a ballpark figure? And how you have written so much?
  • Bender 2 hours ago
    Some here probably have more than 1mb in comments. There's probably a way to calculate that through the API if someone were so inclined.
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    • eth0up 41 minutes ago
      I just pinged the api to dump my 10 year comment history. Yes, that definitely can be done, in a few seconds and a script.

      Edit: the csv = 698kb and the json = 866kb

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      • cwmoore 2 minutes ago
        Great datapoint, thanks.
  • glitch-hunter 47 minutes ago
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  • l4v3rna 3 hours ago
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