Over the nearly thirty years I have been using technology in some form or another for the expression and creation of my technology, many means have been used to store the works which I have thought of writing stories and stuff like that and journalling thoughts on the Internet, starting from my Grade Primary days of Elementary School in 1995. Although it may be impossible to fully archive the portfolio works I have archived over the years from Grades P-XII from start to finish, as well as works I have made and continue to make long after the halls of academia no longer have a person of Spinney family line blood (and if I get my way, probably never will ever again) walk up and down them trying to find their way to some class they have in order to at the very least, just pass the class because they obviously don't want to bad, disappoint their parents and despite the best efforts of the teachers at that time in history, which were transferring away from the model of if you fail, you fail, and if you pass, gold star, to something which is like we have today, where teachers often have blue hair and preferred pronouns, who would believe that everyone should have an equal opportunity at success, and that "No Child Should Be Left Behind."
So, without further rambling, I'm going to share some of my digital portfolios from the year 1995 to presently as of August 2022. We don't talk about anything after September 2022, since (1.) September 2022 is not here yet, and (2.) Who knows if this blog is still going to be up? If I still edit it somewhat actively, and there are still going to be posts made to it without censorship being required so that nobody is offended, then there will be some continuance of the story of my digital portfolios. If it's gone, I have decided it's probably best for the Deep State and Shallow State and State on Shore that either I have no more Digital Portfolio, or it exists, but on a somewhat intranet type of deal where those who can get into the portfolio, can get in. And if it doesn't exist, it's either been altered, deleted, or destroyed, or kept encrypted behind cryptic levels of encryption.
1995: Digital Portfolio File Size: 1.44MB
1995 was a lot simpler, and probably more primitive time. Sure, back then when games were purchased, full titles were released on either a cassette cartridge or a compact disc, depending on which console you got, and even in a lot of cases, PC games were full back then too, only being re-released as Special or Collector's Editions with newer levels that the original vanilla games didn't feature, making the game technically more like an upgraded version of the same game --- what gamers nowadays would simply refer to as DLC.
Simply put, the size of my "digital portfolio" was about 1.44MB on an IBM floppy, actual size when formatted, 1.38MB size for MS-DOS format, or Microsoft Windows FAT16 format, which despite being primitive in comparison to the formats of FAT32, which was released in the later 1990s, as well as formats which have existed in one form or another since around the same time as NTFS, (Think early Windows NT) and the early versions of the EXT file system, (Which surprisingly, was more superior to the NTFS and FAT versions commonly in use @ the time, and also in computers that were more expensive), and the Mac file system which had remained relatively unchanged since the 1984 Macintosh, only difference being that instead of requiring a 3.5" floppy diskette to be put in the computer in order for it to boot, it booted off of a hard drive on the SCSI interface, which at the time was cutting-edge, but later IDE and SATA drives years in the future would likely make the SCSI drives of back then seem loud, slow, and hillariously outdated.
Oh, and another thing. If you wanted to watch a movie, you either picked something off the VHS shelf at home if you had one, or went to the local video store to rent a flick if you were in the mood for one, as DVD technology would be a mere two years away at this point. Internet always on? More like, not always on. Windows 95 was the de-facto home version of Microsoft Windows back then, and Windows NT 3x (from 3.1-3.51) was in use in the business/institutional world, which was rather just a more updated version of Windows 3.1.
2005: Digital Portfolio File Size: 700MB
Ten years have passed since 1995. Technology has improved greatly from the days of dial-up Internet, which comes as both a blessing and a curse. Gone are the cartridges of the Nineties, as Nintendo and Sony, as well as the newly replacing Sega from back then video game company Microsoft are releasing all their video games on disc-based systems. Video rental is on the way out in favor of streaming services like Netflix.
DVD was king in the home movie market, as it had been always. My "Digital Portfolio File Size" soon grew from the measly 1.44MB it had been in the year 1995, gradually to enough of a portfolio size to fill a 700MB blank compact disc, which I had to ultimately fill since I kind of did some stupid things like unleashing all kinds of viruses to my AOpen computer which was my high school workhorse for the entirety of my High School career, from Grades IX-XII. Which had to be repaired several times, and likely never restored to the AOpen OEM that it had left IQ Systems in Greenwood originally back in 2004.
However, my next increase would be coming just three years later, at about the time I would be leaving the regular West Kings institutional environment behind for good, and when I would be entering NSCC.
2008 (2 months) Digital Portfolio File Size: 4.0GB
For a brief period of time between my actual graduation date of June 27, 2008 - July 31, 2008, my Digital Portfolio size had grown in size from 700MB total, to 4.0GB total. However, due to my distaste for Windows Vista, even going so far as to brandish it as "Windoze Pi$$ta", this lasted until late in July, as we will soon be learning.
2008 (Rest Of) Digital Portfolio File Size: 504.0GB
Because of my curiosity of living a computing life without Windows, I figured that because I had a computer which could theoretically handle Ubuntu 7.10 (as my Pentium 4 AOpen could not), I ended up buying an external hard drive sometime around the time I would be returning for one post-graduate year at West Kings District High School, and partially spending the time at the Nova Scotia Community College, as a sort of transition year from my late adolescence into adulthood. Plus, I guess my curiosity of life computing without the Micro$oft brandishing anywhere in my user environment, and not defecting to the Apple Mac Camp (that comes later in the story) kept making me recover the computer back to factory settings, and once it pissed me off (conveniently again) back to Linux. Never keeping one or the other for long, as on the one hand, my parents don't want me to be on an alternative UI. But, on the other hand, it's only going to be a matter of time before Micro$oft released a product so shitty that I'm pretty much going to be ready to fly the Micro$oft coop and don't look back.
It had grown from a recordable CD size or singular DVD size into one external hard drive and a memory stick size, it has. Even though the total formatted combined capacity was somewhere more in the neighborhood of 502.7GB, which means about 1.3GB was left unaccounted for in the difference.
2010 Digital Portfolio File Size: 1.1TB
Although I didn't have a computer (yet) which would break the 1TB storage internal barrier, for 2010, my combined NTFS and HFPS capacity limit would be closer to 1.1TB, and it would continue to grow gradually throughout the decade. No further comments here. Oh, also, a website I designed in 2009 is a thing because I could try to code it from scratch and load it to the snap ednet server, but I figured I would continue to use it as a portfolio even after my exit from the course.
However, my portfolio would ultimately only continue to grow over the years...
2015 Digital Portfolio File Size: 3.1TB
In December 2015, I originally envisioned the "Katana" to be a computer which would eventually have 3.1TB internal hard disk space, with the OS being Microsoft's Windows 7, which was still supported at the time, and 120GB out of the combined space being used for booting the OS (Windows) off of, 2TB for internal storage drives, 1TB for all my games (both legally purchased and don't ask don't tell where I got them), 1TB for music, and movies, and a final 1TB to run the at the time then latest release of Ubuntu LTS as I was planning on transferring away from the operating environment of Micro$oft Windows. This meant that by the time I had finished building the "Claymore" in 2020, like I would've originally planned on; I would be running Ubuntu LTS (and telling 10 to go [CENSORED] itself.) But, after having a love-hate relationship with 10, I figured I would ... Well, actually, now that I mentioned it, we better save that in actuality for when I can have it properly written down.
2020 Digital Portfolio File Size: 7.1TB
At the end of the support officially for Microsoft Windows 7, the actual portfolio size for my install had grown from the 3.1TB I had with the then in-use "Katana" to a planned 6.2TB portfolio which would eventually be in the "Claymore", with its OS dual-boot choice being Ubuntu-Linux likely the latest LTS release at the time, and Windows 10 Pro edition. Neither of those ended up becoming what I ended up planning on being in use. The only reason that this was not as planned is probably likely due to me consulting with relatives who meant well, and friends who gave me some of the essential components for free effectively. The next time, if and when there is a next time I build a computer again - I'm sourcing everything myself and not leaving anything to chance/anyone else's suggestion.
2022 Digital Portfolio File Size: 4.1TB
Thanks to an accidental rabbit bomb (fork bomb + Suicide Linux) I pretty much lost "everything" on the Claymore. I'm planning on putting everything back where it's "supposed to be" on the RedEye, but for the time being, I'm just going to say my digital portfolio size is way smaller than 4.1TB. In actuality, of course. Could be larger for all we know.
Future: Digital Portfolio Size: ???.0 ?B
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