05-24-2007, 10:08 AM
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| Exabyte...
...in an otherwise tediously boring, even to me, article; http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...052301418.html
...there were some neat facts; Quote: |
Electricity reached one-quarter of Americans 46 years after its introduction. Telephones took 35 years and televisions 26 years. Already, in just six years, broadband has reached 25 percent penetration, according to McKinsey & Co.
| BTW, 'exabyte' = 1,074,000,000 gigs. (One BILLION gigabytes) Quote: |
Two exabytes equal the total volume of information generated in 1999. The Internet currently handles one exabyte of data every hour.
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