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How heavy is the Internet?

reblogged from roomthily from Tumblr:


  • 22,837,511,120 kg for 570,937,778 computers (assuming 40kg per computer including monitor)

  • 1,754,809,310kg for 175,480,931 servers

  • 87,000,000kg+ for cables (the tat-14 cable linking the u.s. to europe)

  • 6,075,000kg for 42 million iphones

  • 6,800,000kg for 50 million blackberries


and 287,524 viruses for 85 billion+ web pages.

via CNET UK

Posted by Stowe Boyd
November 20, 2009
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