On 2 Dec 98, Michael A. Stone wrote:
> counting both CDs and Zip disks, the bugger
> can comfortably haul 2.1 terabytes of information from place to place.
Which (speaking of trivia) is more data than the entire Internet carried
over US backbones in a month, as of late 1991 (2.0 terabytes.) The
figure is now closer (well, as of Dec/97) to 3,000 terabytes a month.
Trivia heaped upon trivia: "3,000 terabytes" would be more correctly
expressed as "3 petabytes". That is a rather big number. Though not as
big as the high end of the metric scale, which ends at "yotta" -- a
yottabyte, were there such a thing, would contain
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes (10 to the 24th.)
For even more trivia... I took the Internet traffic figures cited above from
the "First Monday" journal, always an interesting read. It's one of the few
"serious" (i.e., peer-reviewed academic) journals dealing with Internet
issues.
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue3_10/coffman/
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