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Startup Webaroo to put the 'Web on a Hard Drive'?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the starting-the-data-storage-arms-race dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A new startup called Webaroo is launching Monday with an audacious proposition: You can search the Web without a net connection of any kind. Initial release consists of 'Web packs' on specific topics such as news, city guides or Wikipedia. Later this year they're promising a full-Web version that you can carry on a laptop -- provided you're willing to devote something in the neighborhood of 80 gig."

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  1. sounds great by sentientbeing · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sold. Does anyone have the .torrent for it?

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    1. Re:sounds great by Red+Alastor · · Score: 5, Funny
      I'm sold. Does anyone have the .torrent for it?
      Me too ! Do you think we can subscribe to a service to get updates when the content change ?
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    2. Re:sounds great by cgenman · · Score: 5, Funny

      I don't have a lot of hard drive space. It would be really convienient for me if they just put the packs online.

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  2. ah yes remember the day by minus_273 · · Score: 5, Funny

    when someone asked if the internet will fit on a floppy?

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    1. Re:ah yes remember the day by jeroenb · · Score: 3, Funny

      I remember somewhere halfway through the 90s that a co-worker who did research into search technologies got the "idea" to just crawl the web looking for references to stuff you were interested in. It was pretty obvious, but he wanted to back everything up in case he wanted to recrawl it searching for something else.

      One day our internet connection was down and we went up to him asking: "the net connection is down, could we use your internet backup instead?" He was not amused, we were :)

      Come to think of it, I'm not sure what he's up to nowadays...

    2. Re:ah yes remember the day by fracex · · Score: 4, Funny

      I remember when I was convinced that the entire interent came on one of those AOL floppies.

      Mind you I think I was 7 years old at the time.

  3. What about important updates? by KenDodd · · Score: 5, Funny

    For example, where do we get the porn diffs?

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  4. Pr0n? by Dante+Shamest · · Score: 4, Funny

    Would the downloadable content include porn?

    Er, I'm asking this in order to, er, protect my girlfriend's sensibilities. Can't have her unwittingly downloading such naughty stuff you know. =)

  5. Re:Hm.. by AndroidCat · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think goatse would be under "hole internet".

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  6. Re:Dotcom v3.0 by flyingsquid · · Score: 3, Funny
    I was JUST thinking that. This seems like the beginning of a whole slew of semi-ridiculous ideas that get funded because their proponents seem 'ahead of their time'

    In related news, NewsCorp bought Myspace.com for 580 million.