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How much data does the Internet hold?
How much date does the Internet contain in data (videos, video games, songs, and other stuff)?
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- Anonymous8 years agoFavorite Answer
The last time it was measured, by data stored on the cloud, and data stored on servers, it is 295+ exabytes. That is, over 316 trillion gigabytes.
- 8 years ago
The Internet is all networks that are connected to the Internet.
The Worldwide Web are the files on those computers that are shared to the Worldwide Web.
Another way to think of this is...
-- the Internet is the super-network that connects computers and similar devices,
-- the Worldwide Web is the collection of data available to the public on those devices.
Many people claim Tim Berners-Lee "invented the Internet". If he invented anything, it was the Worldwide Web. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee
Email passes through the Internet, but is not actually considered to be part of the WWW, since the data is meant to be for only one computer or user.
Skype passes through the Internet, but doesn't necessarily record any data for use on the WWW.
The amount of data grows by the second, and is not possible to count accurately, anymore than we can count the hairs on the heads of all the people in the world.
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