And since I didn't clearly note the impacts of printing-press changes:
In 1800, on a wooden press little changed from that Gutenberg had first used based on a wine press, a team of pressmen could produce about 120 printed sheets per hour. Those were often either folio (two pages per sheet) or quarto, but would have been one side only -- the versos were printed after allowing the first sides to dry overnight.
Iron and steel presses improved efficiency and strenth of the presses, and roughly doubled output.
Powered and rotary presses sped things up further, and by 1900, an electrically-powered offset-lithographic web press could generate one million pages per hour, a performance increase of about 10,000 fold.
At the same time, the cost of paper, especially cheap pulp newsprint (though also other grades) fell through advances in the papermaking trade itself.
The volume of printed material exploded.
A webserver is effectively a printing press of sorts, streaming bits out over a wire to be reassembled in your browser screen. By 2016, a single webserver with 8 CPU cores could deliver over 1.6 million requests per second.
In 1800, on a wooden press little changed from that Gutenberg had first used based on a wine press, a team of pressmen could produce about 120 printed sheets per hour. Those were often either folio (two pages per sheet) or quarto, but would have been one side only -- the versos were printed after allowing the first sides to dry overnight.
Iron and steel presses improved efficiency and strenth of the presses, and roughly doubled output.
Powered and rotary presses sped things up further, and by 1900, an electrically-powered offset-lithographic web press could generate one million pages per hour, a performance increase of about 10,000 fold.
At the same time, the cost of paper, especially cheap pulp newsprint (though also other grades) fell through advances in the papermaking trade itself.
The volume of printed material exploded.
A webserver is effectively a printing press of sorts, streaming bits out over a wire to be reassembled in your browser screen. By 2016, a single webserver with 8 CPU cores could deliver over 1.6 million requests per second.
https://www.rootusers.com/linux-web-server-performance-bench...