Ever wondered just how many words are on the internet? Or how many pieces of paper it might take, should you want to print out the entire contents of the world wide web?
A British student at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Science at the University of Leicester, has collaborated with a fellow researcher to calculate just that. And the answer is 136 billion sheets of A4!
The estimate is the equivalent of 8,300 miles were you to lay the pages out, and would need some 16 million trees to be produced.
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More startling yet, is that this is just the 'visible' portion of the non-explicit content available online.
The researchers believe that were they to add explicit content to the 4.5 billion websites they accounted for, or content found on the out of reach 'dark web', the results would likely spiral to unimaginable numbers.
So, there you go. Some dinner party trivia for you!
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