As I child I once thought that you could download (let’s say) a 100GB file and store it offline to then provide another device with internet, spending those 100GB offline, why this can’t be done?
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As politely as possible, I will answer your question with a similar question and then explain. If you buy a country music CD with 12 songs, and put it into your CD player, why can’t it play 12 K-pop songs?
Data is stored in ones and zeros which could technically be physically represented as a series of switches, the position of a long series of these switches is interpreted by the base level code of your PC, the crust of your pizza if you will, and translated into something you understand, or instructions for itself. When you download your example 100GB file, you are downloading the exact sequence of ones and zeros that comprise that specific data, meaning if you are downloading a 100 GB game for instance, you’re downloading what could be physically represented as a huge string of switches in a very specific order which your computer then interprets as the game. When you use data online in real time to browse web pages your computer is constantly downloading and then discarding brand new sequences of ones and zeros to translate, so unless you want to look at exactly what the old sequence of ones and zeros meant at the time it was saved it doesn’t help you in the future. Hopefully this helps as much as possible!
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