The Internet is a big, big, big place.
In the 200 seconds I watched the “Internet in real-time” infographic, Google ran almost a million searches and sucked up over $300,000 in revenue. Facebook users uploaded over a terabyte of data, liked something over 10.5 million times, and posted 11 million items.
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Here’s the live infographic, go get mesmerized for a minute or two.
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Oh, and in the time it took me to write this very short story, over 13 million gigabytes of data was transferred of the millions of wires, fibers, servers, and switches that make up the internet.
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