Re:The Internet Weighs About as Much as a Strawberry
by gujk on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @10:32PM
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Of course, if you wrote down all of knowledge on paper, and discounted the mass of the paper and ink that holds the information, the actual information content--the arrangement of the ink--weighs nothing.
What they're saying is that the electrons captured to change the state in a solid-state drive holds physical mass. If this mass change is extrapolated to the data storage of the entire internet, then it physically ways as much as a strawberry.
This likely means that all recorded data in human history would weigh less than your standard package of printer paper from Staples.