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What's above terabytes? Because this (humourous) graphic is claiming that "the whole Internet" contitutes approximately 22 of them.



I assume they picked a number at random and then said "double it", but I'm just kind of curious how it might really compare to the size of "everything on the net right now". This is a huge number (note it's MB, not KB as I at first thought), but somehow it doesn't seem large enough nonetheless.

Date: Oct. 6th, 2004 11:02 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] pope-guilty.livejournal.com
I think it's about 23 million petabytes.

Date: Oct. 6th, 2004 11:09 pm (UTC)From: [personal profile] enotsola
enotsola: (Default)
Ya, I was gonna say the same actually.

Date: Oct. 6th, 2004 11:11 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] bluegodjanus.livejournal.com
That would be a petabyte.

Date: Oct. 7th, 2004 12:05 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] juuro.livejournal.com
I once ran across an (another?) interesting bug in Windows/NT. I was copying a set of files over network. The "Estimated time left" showed something like seventeen billion minutes -- and it kept updating the count.

The real transfer time was little under ten minutes, if I recall. But the sight of seventeen billion minutes was a bit jarring.

Date: Oct. 7th, 2004 05:09 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] soundwave106.livejournal.com
That's not a bug. That's Microsoft math. :P

Date: Oct. 7th, 2004 12:52 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] unworshipediety.livejournal.com
ha ha thats some funny shit there...

speaking of downloading i gotta get back to workin...

Date: Oct. 7th, 2004 07:38 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] ungarsfragile.livejournal.com
kilo mega giga tera peta exa :)

Date: Oct. 7th, 2004 01:47 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] aaangyl.livejournal.com
well, it IS a .zip. I wonder how big a tarball of all of google's indexes would be?

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