Delete Y/N - Your Personal Anti-Big-Data Cloud Platform.

January 5, 2020

Ask yourself:

How much data do you really need to store in the Cloud?

A digital prototype created as a student project for exhibition at Internet Week Denmark 2017, Delete Y/N shaves your personal cloud-usage down to the minimum:

File storage: A maximum of 4 files pr user.
Chat: Do try to keep words under 3 characters in length!
Log: Lets everyone see how much data everyone is using.

Concept:

Reduce your personal carbon-footprint by minimizing your use of Cloud-storage servers! Delete Y/N gives you an excuse to dust off your old SMS-shorthand skills and take them to new heights, while shaming you into posting as few cat-photos as humanly possible.

Celebrate the monthly #DataDeletionDay with your fellow data-deniers or give them a hard time about their excessive data-usage (100kb pr month for everyone should be more than enough!).

Try the prototype here (in Danish)!

Background:

30 mins of Netflix streaming emits 1,6 kg CO2, and in 2022 an estimated 80% of all online-traffic will be taken up by online video. Data centres may consume 8% of the total global energy produced in 2030. Enough said, right? Read more here: The Shift Project

Technology:

HTML (keep it ugly!)
CSS (not much)
JavaScript (over 40 lines - quite embarrassing really!)