Saturday, 13 June 2009
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Kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, zettabytes
"Fueled by the insatiable demand for Web-based video (including those such as YouTube's immensely popular "Monster From the Deep" clip and archived television shows found on Hulu), global Internet traffic will get nearly four times larger over the next four years. By the end of 2013, the equivalent of 10 billion DVDs worth of information will cross the Net monthly, according to a report issued today by Cisco Systems, the company that sells much of networking gear on which the Internet runs.
If this prediction holds true, it would take more than half a million years to watch all the online video that crosses the Internet in just a single month by 2013, the company reports."
(From science america.)"A zettabyte (symbol ZB, derived from the SI prefix zetta-) is a unit of information or computer storage equal to one sextillion (one long scale trilliard) bytes.[1][2][3][4]- 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes = 10007, or 1021.
An alternative (rarely used) definition is[5]
- 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424 bytes = 10247, or 270."
(From wikipedia.)
This is the future, ladies and gentlemen.
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Comments (13)
:-O!!!! crazy! although... not surprised. and yes.... sad to say.. this IS our world as it is TODAY!!!
@CrazyMaestro - Aha, I didn't know that they went as far as they did. All I really knew about was like, gigabytes tops.
lol... Haven't you seen back to the future? remember jigga watts.... he he he
@CrazyMaestro - Lol, I have seen it, I just don't really remember it. :P
Megabyte = Villian from some animated series "Reboot".
@Coffee_Kaioken - I totally forgot about that! I used to watch that show all the time. Haha. (:
Holy crap.
But then again, some people say the internet will be "full" by 2010 or so.
@Dare2BDiferentt - I'm still having major issues imagining the internet having the ability to be full. I mean, if it were a house or something, I could imagine that but.. it just seems like space to me. :/
@pillowpixies - Yeah, like there's constantly just infinitely MORE of it there.
@Dare2BDiferentt - But isn't the internet somehow.. infinite.. itself?
Damnit, I can't wrap my mind around this.
Missed one though...terabyte is what most high-end computers are using nowadays. It's all so ridiculous. I don't even think i could fill up my 500GB computer and I only got that because it was the minimum when I bought my comp. I couldn't imagine filling up twice that.
@OmgaPhnx - Yeah, I know what you mean. Mine is only 300GB but I don't think I could even fill that up unless I were to download a ton of games. I don't know, I guess with all the numerous sites and all that jazz, it makes some kind of sense.
@pillowpixies - Yeah, it's just ridiculous to think about it sometimes. Especially when you think about the fact that some places (i.e. Walmart) have whole warehouses dedicated to storing information. Here's a link to an article written back in 2004 about Walmarts data warehouse surpassing 500 terabytes. I'd hate to know what they're up to now, 5 years later.