Presented 3D visualization of the amount of information stored on the Internet (video)

For thousands of years, humanity has accumulated informationand stored the obtained data in various forms: from rock paintings to modern superdense storage devices. The main repository of all useful and completely unnecessary data today is the worldwide Internet, where, along with pictures of the Universe and videos from other planets, countless selfies with pyramids and the Eiffel Tower and indispensable photos of your favorite cats have been accumulated. The YouTube channel MetaBallStudios, specializing in comparative 3D visualization of various objects, animals, planets and even spaceships from science fiction films, tried to evaluate the entire volume of information stored on the Internet.

Enthusiasts from the MetaBallStudios channelscaled the amount of information in the proportion of 1 cubic mm equal to 1 byte of information. At the first stage, the volume grows gradually, but after 1 TB it is possible to estimate what really large amount of information Internet users have free access to in the modern information space.

At the first stage, everything looks quite real.So, for example, a standard matchbox contains "only" 22 KB of information, and 1 MB "fits" into a liter bottle. However, in the future, the size grows in giant steps. Several people can already be hidden in a 1 GB cube, and 1 TB is comparable in volume to a dozen cars. A nine-storey building “contains” information “wired” in 10 TB, and a 1000 TB cube is ten times larger than the volume of the Statue of Liberty. One Exabyte (million TB), equal to the volume of information on the Internet in 2001, is already comparable to Manhattan, and the volume of the Internet, equal to 1 Zettabyte, is capable of completely covering Manhattan by 2020. It is better to look at the visualization value of the largest 1 Yottabyte on your own on the MetaBallStudios channel - it is comparable to the volumes of huge megalopolises.