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ZeusTheRecluse t1_j62mm1t wrote

I'm left wondering:

  1. if youtube is only third, what the hell is in the Library of Congress and British Library... seriously...

  2. Why have i never heard of the Library and Archives Canada (I. Am. Canadian).

  3. Wikipedia sooooo small???? damn, wow....

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tomiwa1a t1_j6ba59m wrote

  1. The other interesting piece is that Library of Congress was founded in 1800 (though a fire caused it to restart it's collection in 1815).

Youtube was founded in 2005.

So in just 17 years, Youtube has amassed a collection of information that is 57% the size of the world's largest library which has been accumulating it's collection for over 200 years.

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  1. I'm also Canadian. Hadn't heard of it either until we did this report. We probably haven't heard it because we likely won't need to use any of it's resources. Public libraries already do a really good job for most of our day to day needs.

  2. Wikipedia's small size makes sense given that contributions are heavily restricted and have such a high bar. Imagine if every Youtube video had to be approved by a editors before or every author had to have their books approved by editors before publishing.

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