The Weight of the Internet Will Shock You
The Weight of the Internet Will Shock You
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The Weight of the Internet Will Shock You
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The Weight of the Internet Will Shock You
The Weight of the Internet Will Shock You
tldr
If the internet is 175 x 1024^7 bytes, that’s 960,947 grams’ worth of DNA. That’s the same as 10.6 American males. Or one third of a Cybertruck. Or 64,000 strawberries.
Anything but metric.
There is literally "grams" in that sentence
Those were amerigrams
You literally said "960,947 grams"
That's ~961kg; 39kg short of one metric ton.
...of DNA
wow I'm so shocked I can't contain my excitement yawn
Does it get more clickbaity than this?
This is fantastically dumb. Why would they convert bytes into DNA? That is literally not how the internet works. It's just an arbitrary, hypothetical storage method.
Can't they convert it into hard drives? That would be better but it would still ignore all the hardware used to run the hard drives, connect them, etc.
Terrible article.
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