Can i download the entire internet (theoretically)?

[Seb]

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]

To be very honest. I don't think so.

[Daniel]

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]

No, there is not enough storage space.
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[Kentlass1]

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]

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]

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]

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.