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Weighing the Internet

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the damn-liars-and-statisticians dept.

the-dark-kangaroo writes "Jason Striegel has taken Physics to a new dimension by 'Weighing the Internet.' Well, actually calculating the total number of users online in one day. The conclusion that was reached was that there are ~519 million users per day online. Also, 'From what we calculated, it would appear that roughly 41 percent of internet users did not log in that day.'"

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  1. Re:what? by fr1kk · · Score: 5, Interesting

    See, when I read "weight of the internet" I thought it was talking about Physical Weight. It'd be sweeter if you took all the bandwidth data divided it by the speed of light (or whatever), and came up with the weight of the individual electrons of data at any given moment. Now THAT would be "taking Physics to a new dimension"!

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  2. Don't bother, TA doesn't tell us... by Sensible+Clod · · Score: 1, Interesting

    the answer to the really important question:

    how many Libraries of Congress does it weigh?

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