Unhandled Perception
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Saturday, June 02, 2007

How Much Does The Internet Weigh?

How heavy is information? Most of us know that computers represent all types of information—e-mails, documents, video clips, Web pages, everything—as streams of binary digits, 1s and 0s. These digits are mathematical entities, but they are also tangible ones: They are embodied and manipulated as voltages in electronic circuits. Therefore, every bit of data must have some mass, albeit minuscule. This prompted DISCOVER to ask the question: How much would all the data sent through the Internet on an average day weigh?

Link:
http://.../jun/how-much-does-the-internet-weigh/

(as found through DonationCoder.com)

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