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Can i download the entire internet (theoretically)? - Seb - 04-23-2014 12:02 AM
I was just wondering if u can download pages from the internet and if u wanted to download every page how many TB would it be? i know there are mirror sites etc but just incase the internet crashed due to nuclear war etc (very unlikely i know)
- 570 - 04-23-2014 12:10 AM
To be very honest. I don't think so.
- Daniel - 04-23-2014 12:18 AM
No. Not necessarily a size restriction. Many web pages are dynamically generated from a server which is not accessible for direct download. Hoping for a stash of pornography for masturbation purposes when the nuclear war hits?
- 670 - 04-23-2014 12:23 AM
No, there is not enough storage space.
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- Kentlass1 - 04-23-2014 12:33 AM
If you external hard drives, you'd need countless tb's and hard drives to be honest I'd imagine!
Doubt it can be done and pretty unlikely.
( Least your question made me smile, thank you. )
- ruratboy - 04-23-2014 12:36 AM
I suppose you could theoretically download all the client-side content - the stuff you see on your browser/client.
But all the server-side content is not accessible in the same way, as noted earlier.
Sounds like a good/bad science fiction title - The Man who Downloaded the Internet.
- Jim - 04-23-2014 12:41 AM
No. You would have to have enough hard drive space to hold all of YouTube, and EVERY porn site - and that's just the start.
The cited web page claims that it's 1.3 trillion gigabytes - which is 1.3 billion terabytes. I didn't see a date published on the page, so it may be off by quite a bit.
If you could buy a 1TB hard drive for a dollar, you'd have to spend $1.3 billion to hold it all.
But, so much information is being added every day that you couldn't download it fast enough to keep from getting further behind.
- PokerPlayer - 04-23-2014 12:45 AM
Theoretically, if billions were to be put to the task, I'd say yes. But in practice no. TB isn't a large enough unit of measure, its way bigger than you think.