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800 Megs of Data Per Person Last Year?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-thats-a-lot-of-data dept.

Ant writes "Growing net, computer and phone use is driving a huge rise in the amount of information people generate and use. US researchers estimate that every year 800MB of information is produced for every person on the planet. Their study found that information stored on paper, film, magnetic and optical disks has doubled since 1999. Paper is still proving popular though. The amount of information stored in books, journals and other documents has grown 43% in three years."

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  1. aasdfasd by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  2. 800 MB? more like 800 GB by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    seriously, as a sweaty linux zealot I can tell you I downloaded and watched over 300 full length porn movies which are now stored on CD. I don't think it would be possible to get off for the entire year on a single 800 MB of porn.

  3. Re:Jews are smarter than you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Thank god there's 6million less of them

  4. 800MB is CREATED per person. by YOU+ARE+SUCH+A+FAG! · · Score: -1, Troll

    So you admit to jacking off to the 800MB of look-how-long-my-penis-is MJPEGs that the sweaty Linux zealots pump out each year.

    I bet you get a rise out of the MacOSX Sorenson-encoded buggery.

    Just sick.

    WinXP cock-maiming with Windows Media Encoder is the only one sanctioned by God.