This Is How Big the Internet Is [Internet]
Kyle Wagner
The internet is a big and amorphous thing to talk about. What's it made of? Web pages? Articles? Facebook? Stuff you can blow up? How about just how much people actually use it. According to Cisco, we chewed through 30.7 exabytes per month last year. That's the equivalent of about 6 billion 5GB HD movies. More »


source: gizmodo.com
30 May 2012
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