Question @people who were already actively reading fic back in the 90′s early 2000′s etc.:
Since I have a preference for older fandoms I keep ending up on older fic archives too, but I’m personally really more of an AO3-generation type person since I literally only started reading fic back in 2013 and ao3 is where I read my first stories..
SO on ao3 fic length/’size’ gets measured in WORDCOUNT (which.. makes sense to me and is something I can sort of work with to make an approximation of how long something is gonna take me to read etc.)
BUT on older fic archives I tend to see things get measured by.. idek what exactly? but? you end up with fic sizes like “55K” or.. “200K” and.. to me ‘K’ means thousand? but they most definitely do not mean 200 thousand WORDS, so..
is it FILESIZE?? like.. 200 KB if you save it as a textfile??? or?? what.. just.. W H A T ?
I’m pretty sure it’s file size because that mattered with dial-up. I think 4K roughly corresponds to 1000 words.
