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Joe96
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There was another thread about "a small internet world", and this morning a question popped in my head. How big is the internet? (Obviously not in distance or anything, I mean in size)

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KingLemon
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Also maybe in terms of holding information, i don't think computers are as large as the universe...I think the universe can hold a lot more information than our simple internet.

samdawghomie
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How big is the internet?


Well, according to an estimate by Google CEO Eric Schmidt the internet is about 5 million tera bytes, and it's expanding by about 100 terabytes per month.

just a little smaller than my wiener


I didn't know the internet was that small. xD Jk

I have a map.


So do I!
vinster132
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It's obviously more than huge. Extremely igantic, super dooper gigantic, sure huge. etc.

XVERB
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^^well thank you. Hahahaha

KFK
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So do I!


Hmm, is that a map over the Internet? IP's and stuff? That's pretty huge right there.
knight_34
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Well, according to an estimate by Google CEO Eric Schmidt the internet is about 5 million tera bytes, and it's expanding by about 100 terabytes per month.


That's outdated information. Remember that the internet grows at an ever increasing rate.

Hmm, is that a map over the Internet? IP's and stuff? That's pretty huge right there.


Partial map of the internet.. Once again Samdawg has managed to provided outdated information. Opte Project maps.

just a little smaller than my wiener


Propagator.

Omg, you're a legend. That was the most epic post ever.


Believer.

Also maybe in terms of holding information, i don't think computers are as large as the universe...I think the universe can hold a lot more information than our simple internet.


That reminds me of estimates that our observable universe contains at least..

100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

atoms... Mainly guesswork but it makes me think about how impossible it is (for most of us at least) to imagine such numbers in any sort of quantity... I can say for myself that it would effectively be infinity if I even attempted to to visualize..
Kyouzou
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The internet is vast beyond your comprehension. Not really, it's just enormous.

samdawghomie
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outdated information


outdated information


Twice in a row. That's a new record.
Freakenstein
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I didn't know the internet was that small. xD Jk


The harder you try, the harder you fail

That reminds me of estimates that our observable universe contains at least..


Thaaat's bull...I really don't think anyone can estimate the size of the observable universe >_<
knight_34
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The internet is vast beyond your comprehension. Not really, it's just enormous.


Hmmm.. Though really, how do I visualize amounts as high as googol or so?

Thaaat's bull...I really don't think anyone can estimate the size of the observable universe >_<


Remember, that these "estimates" require a lot of guesswork. Nothing to actually go on but interesting nonetheless in my opinion.

Here.
ArmorL3gend
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The internet is around the size of a YottaByte which is equivalent to 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 Bytes

Here is a conversion list for Bytes

Name Nimber of Bytes
KiloByte 1,024
MegaByte 1,048,576
GigaByte 1,073,741,824
TeraByte 1,099,511,627,776
PetaByte 1,125,899,906,842,624
ExaByte 1,152,921,504,606,846,976
ZettaByte 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424
YottaByte 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176

Zega
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Name Nimber of Bytes
KiloByte 1,024
MegaByte 1,048,576
GigaByte 1,073,741,824
TeraByte 1,099,511,627,776
PetaByte 1,125,899,906,842,624
ExaByte 1,152,921,504,606,846,976
ZettaByte 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424
YottaByte 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176


http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/240/5/d/you__re_not_a_nerd_stamp_by_missnimrod-d2xidil.png
Zanto_zsnes
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The amount of people is unidentifiable, but according to the world internet there are around 1,407,724,920 people that use the internet or even more.

Of course that number keeps going higher everyday, so the total amount is undetermined and unstable, so there you, over 1 billion people use the internet everyday.

BlackVortex
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Not very big, probably about the size of a rubiks cube.

Kyouzou
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Name Number of Bytes
Kilobyte 1,024
Megabyte 1,048,576
Gigabyte 1,073,741,824
Terabyte 1,099,511,627,776
Petabyte 1,125,899,906,842,624
Exabyte 1,152,921,504,606,846,976
Zettabyte 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424
Yottabyte 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176

http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/240/5/d/you__re_not_a_nerd_stamp_by_missnimrod-d2xidil.png


True, he's a googler


Not very big, probably about the size of a rubiks cube.


Psh, the internet does not contain an alternate dimension.
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