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The Weight of the Internet Will Shock You

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In 2006 , a Harvard physicist made an attempt to calculate the internet’s mass.

He concluded that the internet comes out to roughly 50 grams —or about the weight of a couple strawberries.

Current estimates say that 1 gram of DNA can encode 215 petabytes—or 215 x 1015 bytes—of information.

1 gram of DNA can encode 215 petabytes, or 215 x 1015 bytes, of information.

That’s the same as 10.6 American males, or one third of a Cybertruck .

If the internet is 175 x 10247 bytes, that's 960,947 grams ’ worth of DNA.

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