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Re: How big is the Internet?
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 00:37:20 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 15 Aug 2013, Seth Mattinen wrote:
We'll also need this data in units of number of Libraries of Congress.
The researchers at the Library of Congress are more than happy to explain why you are wrong to attempt to use the Library of Congress as a unit of measure, and why the estimates being used are wrong.
http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/07/transferring-libraries-of-congress-of-data/ along with several other blog posts over the years.But it doesn't seem to stop people from wanting to 1) know how big the Library of Congress is and 2) using it as a unit of measure.
It seems odd that there are relatively good estimates for other communication networks and utilities; i.e. how big is the PSTN, how many television or radio stations, how much freight is carried by railroads, trucks and ships. But asking how big is the Internet, how much data does it carry, ends up with no answer.
Even the researchers at the Library of Congress, if you give them enough beer and beg them enough, will eventually give you an estimate
about the Library collection size as of the end of the last year. What so special about the Internet that it can't be measured?
Current thread:
- Re: How big is the Internet?, (continued)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Scott Howard (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Roy (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Lyle Giese (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Roy (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Wayne Wenthin (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Caruso, Anthony (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Jason Chambers (Aug 14)
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- Re: How big is the Internet? - about the size of a strawberry Jayram Deshpande (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Scott Howard (Aug 14)
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- Re: How big is the Internet? Larry Sheldon (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Jay Ashworth (Aug 14)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Seth Mattinen (Aug 15)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Sean Donelan (Aug 15)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Patrick W. Gilmore (Aug 15)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Dave Sparro (Aug 16)
- Re: How big is the Internet? bmanning (Aug 16)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Sean Donelan (Aug 16)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Seth Mattinen (Aug 15)
- Re: How big is the Internet? Jorge Amodio (Aug 15)