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title: How long is my data?
category: Glitch apps
link: https://howlongismydata.glitch.me/
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Yesterday, Stuart Lewis posted a photo of his [latest hardware](https://twitter.com/stuartlewis/status/1255825450485628928):

{% tweet https://twitter.com/stuartlewis/status/1255825450485628928 %}

After some [back-and-forth in our replies](https://twitter.com/stuartlewis/status/1256135586651439112), he made me realise that the true unit of data isn't bytes or volume, it's shelving length.
Specifically, if you wrote all your data to 3&half;&Prime; floppy disks, how much shelf space would you need to hold them all?

To help answer this critically important question, I wrote a Glitch app that calculates just that: <https://howlongismydata.glitch.me/>

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layout: post
title: How long is my data? 💾 
category: Glitch apps
link: https://howlongismydata.glitch.me/
---

Yesterday, Stuart Lewis posted a photo of his [latest hardware](https://twitter.com/stuartlewis/status/1255825450485628928):

{% tweet https://twitter.com/stuartlewis/status/1255825450485628928 %}

After some [back-and-forth in our replies](https://twitter.com/stuartlewis/status/1256135586651439112), he made me realise that the true unit of data isn't bytes or volume, it's shelving length.
Specifically, if you wrote all your data to 3&half;&Prime; floppy disks, how much shelf space would you need to hold them all?

To help answer this critically important question, I wrote a Glitch app that calculates just that: <https://howlongismydata.glitch.me/>

Add an emoji floppy disk
Add an emoji floppy disk
