How big is the internet?
Information,servers,hard disks and everything else you can think about
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A few million terabytes, I’d say.
I’d say it’s fairly infinite.
Bigger then a bread box.
Hmmmm, wonder if people still know what a bread box is?
And most of those tubes are chock full of porn.
Well, I don’t know how big it is, but heres a map of it
Waaaay bigger than your house.
Like WAY bigger.
How are we defining the internet? Information storage or the internet itself?
A couple years ago Eric Schmidt (CEO of Google) estimated it at about 5 exabytes.
I remember reading a hard science fiction story where you could effectively store all the data that makes up a complex human intelligence/personality in a few exabytes.
@gemiwing I think @Christian95 means everything that is the internet:
“Information,servers,hard disks and everything else you can think about”
@erichw1504 Yeah, there are two schools of measurement thought and one of them goes down a totally different path. Just wanted to know if this is what they meant.
It’s as big as the world wide web!
@DAVETHERAV1D – the internet is not “www” – that’s just one part of it.
The internets is <——————- this———————-> big.
Almost as big as Kanye’s ego.
so big you that our great minds still cannot grasp it.
Oh, I can grasp it. Just cant hold on to it.
@ChazMaz That’s what your mom told me last night.
I’m sorry, I couldn’t resist
Yes, she told me already!
You big stud!
It’s quite big.
As big as a monster-house (when I was younger I would say really big things are as big as a monster house).
Another map of the internet
Bigger than a breadbasket…but smaller than the entire Universe.
@anon Looking for more narrow? Bigger than a fridge, but smaller than the Earth.
@erichw1504 Bigger than a whale but smaller than the ocean?
@anon Bigger than a cruise ship, but smaller than Texas.
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this big!! spreads arms out
It’s as big as the total amount of numbers between 0 and 1 (think Cantor).
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