Growth Live In Terabytes
(70 per second):
Size Of The Internet
In Petabytes:
How big is the Internet?
The exact size of the Internet is
very difficult to determine. For
this a Live Counter released
figures large IT sites were used.
Based on the speed with which
the Internet in recent years grew
an extrapolation for the coming
years has been created. Thus
the size of the Internet in 2012
was calculated to be 2800
Zettabytes or 2.8 exabytes.
This number of exabytes are 2.8
billion terabytes. To store this
amount of data you would need
700 million 4TB hard drives.
In 2013 the amount of
information on the Internet was
3.7 Zettabyte. In 2016 the
amount of data passing through
the Internet
grew to about 26,500 gigabytes
per second.
A growth of traffic is forecast by
20% annually, on the basis also
of the Live-based Counter
below. One reason for this is
that more and more people have
access to the Internet. See:
live-counter.com/internet-users-
worldwide/
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It is doubling in size every two years
How much data does the internet contain?
The size of the Internet doubles about every 2 years.
For the beginning of 2016, the Counter expect around 7.7
Zettabyte on to data that is distributed worldwide Internet
servers are.
In the year 2020, the amount of data is expected to enlarge to 40
zettabytes.
It is estimated that by then 50 billion devices will be connected
to the Internet.
1 Gigabyte:
An author takes 50 years
for every week a book with
about 190 pages, more
specifically, with 383,561
characters (with spaces
and sentence included)
write. This would be a
billion letters or bytes.
1 Terabyte:
A trillion letters. If they
were written down at a
distance of one millimeter
it would give the text
length one million
kilometers. 25 times
around the globe!
1 Petabyte:
The floppy was the
storage medium of the
legendary Commodore 64
in the 1980s.
This disk for this home
computer holds 174,848
Bytes leaves to be
described on two pages.
If you want 1 Petabyte
storage you could obtain
this by copying old C64
floppy on this, so you'd
have more than 90 years 2
disk change to perform the
over 2.8 billion diskettes
per second copy.
This would have a weight
of 36,889 tons!
Every 14 seconds, the
Internet increases by this
amount of data!
1 Exabyte:
212 million DVDs weighing
3,404 tons.
1 Zettabyte:
1,000,000,000,000,000,000.
000 bytes or characters.
Printed on graph paper
(with one in letter in each
mm2 square) would be a
paper measuring a billion
km.
The entire surface of the
earth (510 million km²)
would be covered by a
layer of paper almost
twice.
1 Yottabyte:
The size of the Internet in
2030, if the current growth
factor of 40% is
maintained annually.
With this amount of data
one could hold the lives of
all of the people on Earth
from the time of her birth
until her death on video.
A Yottabyte is
8,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000 bits.
The same number of water
molecules would yield
only 240 grams of water.
A small glassful!
See:
water-drops-atoms
Worldwide Internet Traffic
In Gigabyte Per Second:
The Deep Web
A large part of the Internet is
hidden, that is, not easily visible
to everyone.
These include, for example, the
server log files, which each
monitor access to the site.
Likewise, the "cloud".
Entrepreneurs as individuals
save more data in it. Although
these are "the Internet",’
but available only with login
information.
