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The Weight of the Internet Will Shock You

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The Weight of the Internet Will Shock You

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

Depending on who you ask, the internet weighs no more than a potato, a strawberry—or something much, much smaller. WIRED investigates.

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Anything but metric.

You literally said “960,947 grams”

That’s ~961kg; 39kg short of one metric ton.
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  …of DNA
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    A byte has to be weighed against something equivalent. DNA is a fantastic constant representation of physical data.

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