Where is all the stuff on the internet stored ?

Answer 1

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d2/Internet_map_1024.jpg
each branch trees out to more branches until it reaches the end. each end is basically a computer that stores the info called a server

some are separate computers, some are networks of computers,
some are just regular people, some are owned by companies, schools, governments
some have slow connections and some have very fast connections

this picture only shows about 3% of the internet

I will admit that google is buying up large bandwidth servers across the US, but still, most of the net is "hosted" by a large amount of different people/organizations.

a host is someone who will store your info for you (your website) on their servers (the computers that store files for people to access)

the two terms are loosely exchanged back and forth.

DNS servers translate the URL you type in (ex www.yahoo.com)
to an ip address. 209.191.93.52
(they keep records of all url = ip connections)

then finds the best route to connect you to that server at that ip address

your ISP gives you access to the internet.

the ISPs are starting to get greedy and now want to OWN the internet, instead of letting you or me own our own piece.
Help the Cause

www.savetheinternet.com
hopefully google will keep these people in mind

Answer 2

Websites are stored on hosts. If you make a website and put it on your computer, then your own personal computer would be the host of your site. Then people's ISP's can request pages from your computer and send them to the people that use their service. There's no one place where everything is stored, each site is on whatever computer the person that made it decides to put it on.

Answer 3

On servers that are kept in secret places and monitored by the military (including the xbox live servers)

Google has aprox 100,000 servers located all over the world and has everything to do with google stored on them for us all to access