How much capacity of memory does the internet have, and where exactly is the memory source located?

Answer 1

Everything you view online is located in several locations on different servers. There is no one main server. You connect to your isp's server and then they connect to other servers the one's that have the information you are looking for.

Answer 2

Hi,
I think that ur confused with some bits. This is the definition of internet: -

An electronic network of computers that includes nearly every university, government, and research facility in the world. Also included are many commercial sites. It started with four interconnected computers in 1969 and was known as ARPAnet.


This means that the internet is a network of all computers which have internet access.

If u wanna know the capacity of memory of the internet then that would be the sum of memory of every single computer connected to the internet which wud be massive!

I hope that u get what i mean.
Hasnain Mir Mohammed

Answer 3

No offense, but I just laughed for a solid minute when I read your question.

The Internet is not one object. It isn't like one computer sitting in some corporation's basement. It's a network.

On your computer, you can use your Explorer (for Windows) or Finder (for Mac) window to type in the address for a particular file on your personal computer. The network of the Internet simply means that you can type in an address for a file on someone else's computer (personal or otherwise).

When you access a website like Yahoo, you are connecting to a system of computers owned by Yahoo. They aren't necessarily in the same place. They are specialized computers known as servers, and pretty much all they do is hold information to be accessed remotely. Some people buy servers to keep in their home for their personal website project, but you can personally buy space on someone else's server, too.

In any case, there is no finite capacity to the Internet, because people add and delete server space all the time. And their memory sources are scattered all over the world.

Answer 4

There is no specific location for internet memory. Information is stored on a large number of servers which make the internet.
For example, a very small amount of information is on my PC, because I have a web server running.
The internet is expanding with every new PC connected, at a exponential rate, so the capacity is unknown.

check this page: http://www.internetworldstats.com/emarketing.htm

Answer 5

The memory of the internet is made up of every computer that is connected to the internet and the capacity of that memory will keep expanding as long as more computers are getting connected to it.

Answer 6

The Internet is a series of servers, most of whom are routed out of Virginia. It is impossible to estimate the "memory" of the internet. The original Internet backbone was the ARPANET.

In 1989 the NSFNet backbone was established, the US military broke off as a separate MILNET network, and the ARPANET was shut down.

A plan was then developed for expanding NSFNet further, prior to rendering it obsolete by creating a new network architecture based on decentralized routing.

With the decommissioning of the NSFNet Internet backbone network on April 30, 1995, the Internet now consists entirely of the various commercial ISPs and private networks (as well as inter-university networks), as connected at their peering points.

The term "Internet backbone" is now sometimes loosely used to refer to the inter-provider links and peering points. However, with the universal use of the BGP routing protocol, the Internet functions with no single central network at all.

With the advent of the dot-com bust of 2002, a number of major telecommunications carriers were threatened by bankruptcy, and some failed completely: for example, the EBONE network was decommissioned in its entirety. This was a successful test of the level of fault-tolerance and redundancy of the Internet.

Answer 7

The internet itself doesn't have memory. Websites (like Yahoo) are hosted by thousands and thousands of different companies. The collective content of these companies makes up the internet. So, the capacity of the internet in nearly endless.

Answer 8

The internet is millions of servers world wide, with computers similar to the one your using. Most just have alot more processors and bigger hard drives, memory, etc... All websites are not located in one central place, you have been watching too much matrix..

Answer 9

I've never thought about that. The source of memory depends on the server, each server maintains it's own memory for the sight.

Answer 10

it depend on the srver ou are saving your files on, and the memory source is a server on the net for web serving.