Posted on 03/23/2010 3:15:34 AM PDT by Daffynition
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THX
Thank you very much for the post. BTTT.
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Worth a ping to the list? More sources to explore...
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To put things in perspective, I have about 6 terabytes of storage in my house.
Bookmarking,
Thanks, this is very cool.
Thank you for posting this, Daffynition. I forwarded it to my daughters. They might be able to make use of it in what they for work. They’ve been able to use info supplied by FReepers on a couple of occasions.
Thanks, very helpful.
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There are still gopher, archie, and veronica servers out there. (Old timers will know what I mean)
Oh, really???
The source that (mistaken) claim (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Web#cite_note-2) is based on disagrees:
http://www.lesk.com/mlesk/ksg97/ksg.html
That says it was 20 TB, not 3000 TB.
Or am I reading this wrong?
That chart didn't include all the audio and video recording files. When you add that, it gets to 3000 TB.
Yeah, that was probably about right.
If it were only 20 TB, it would be theoretically posible to mirror the entire internet in your basement with a few thousand dollars worth of hard drives.
I thought that the internet was being measured in petabytes now.
“Estimating that is a fairly difficult task, but one person made an estimate not so long ago who can probably be trusted to have a good idea. Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, the world’s largest index of the Internet, estimated the size at roughly 5 million terabytes of data. That’s over 5 billion gigabytes of data, or 5 trillion megabytes. Schmidt further noted that in its seven years of operations, Google has indexed roughly 200 terabytes of that, or .004% of the total size.”
http://www.wisegeek.com/how-big-is-the-internet.htm
Great list, thanks.
Here’s another that will get you going: http://www.wolframalpha.com/
It not only digs out the info, but can figure out the right answer. Go hit the link for Stephen Wolfram’s Info, it’s a 13 minute video that shows the power W|A has under the covers.
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