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The British continue to amaze the world with studies that, with one the sides can be called completely interesting, but on the other – completely useless to humanity.
So, students from Durham University in England were not too lazy and calculated how many sheets of paper are needed to print the current public Internet. Young english also found out how many trees would need to be cut to get so much paper material.
To begin with, students calculated how many pages average web resource located in the “visible” Internet space. Researchers took as an example free encyclopedia “Wikipedia”, where the average information an article takes about fifteen A4 sheets. In order to print all text data available in the English segment encyclopedias, you need to use about seventy-one million paper sheets. Currently on a public network there are approximately four and a half billion pages. Considering that, that one adult tree gives eight and a half thousand sheets paper, we can conclude that the printout of the Internet took would spend nearly eight million trees and over sixty eight billion leaves.
At the same time, do not forget that the worldwide network is rapidly expands daily. In addition, there is a so-called “hidden” Internet, which may contain textual information slightly less than in the “visible.”