Internet Data Heads for 500 Billion Gigabytes

[Osiris]

Internet Data Heads for 500 Billion Gigabytes

Here is an interesting bit of info, the internet is really big. How big? If the internet was printed and bound into books, it would make a stack of porno mags under your mattress that would that would reach Pluto and back ten times.

At 487bn gigabytes (GB), if the world's rapidly expanding digital content were printed and bound into books it would form a stack that would stretch from Earth to Pluto 10 times.
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[Kharn]

Thats a awful lot of porn.

 

[ricanflow]

lol...imagine a single hard drive with that much capacity.

a drive failure would make for an extremely bad day.....

 

[carnageX]

Guess I better get a few more HDD's...

 

[HAVOC]

At 487bn gigabytes (GB), if the world's rapidly expanding digital content were printed and bound into books it would form a stack that would stretch from Earth to Pluto 10 times.
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That would not be easy to hide.

 

[Harper]

NSFW

Seriously, if I ever find that Avenue Q is ever touring down in australia, I want to see them.

Seriously, really this time, that is very interesting on how big the internet really is. Is means that the internet is made up of at least 25 Billion hard drives. This is assuming that these are 2Tb size drives. Excellent find.

I still like that Map of the internet

Can some one point me into right direction to where TF is?

if want an even larger version. check out http://www.eee.bham.ac.uk/com_test/img\dsnl\internet15jan06.png

 

[Oreo]

Seems way wrong. Seriously, how on earth did they figure that out ?

I'd guess like, 20000 Terabytes.

 

[oldskool]

10% of that figure must be in the Off Topic Discussion Forum alone

 

[philbar71]

i thought teh internets was like a petabyte,

Petabyte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

that what wiki says.

 

[Kharn]

The smaller version of that DNS map image KC posted looks fantastic, i just found me a new desktop.