Dan Luu on Nostr: I feel like people consistently underestimate the size of "web scale" things unless ...

I feel like people consistently underestimate the size of "web scale" things unless they've had specific exposure to it. I'm curious if other people have noticed this or if this is some kind of bias on my end.

Some examples below (I can't think of any examples going the other direction off the top of my head):

At Google orientation in 2013, an instructor asked people to guess how many servers Google had, and no one was even close (everyone guessed quite low; I didn't guess but wish I did!).