Comment on Can we estimate the size of the Internet ? If so, what size would it be (in GB, TB or whatever) ?
SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Define “Internet” to answer your question more meaningfully.
Are you counting cached copies of data (Cloudflare etc), or only the original copy? Only the source data or the data copied on the receiving end (webbrowser etc) too? Data at rest on a computer hard drive or data being transmitted or both? Are you only including world wide web (websites) or any data (gaming, streaming, fileshare). Humans or bots or both? Public web or dark web? Any computer physically connected to a network or only those data accessible publicly?
Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Would it be easier to be simply defined as any data on any storage device that is connected to the internet and accessible that way? This would include things such as those CloudFlare cached copies and anything beyond simply WWW and make no distinction between humans and bots or dark or public. I guess that would make it pretty hard to make any even remotely educated guess though since so much it would not be accessible to anyon trying to count it.