Have you ever accessed the deep web?

[haxxiy]

TWRoO said:

haxxiy said:

TWRoO said:

haxxiy said:

Yeah. The web as a whole is probably in the high yotabytes by now.

Anyways I just checked a  file with gateways for some deep web sites with illegal stuff  (dozens of gateways for each) and most of them end with .to, .ro, .kr, .ru and .ca. Mmm... Russia and Korea? Not sure about the others.

Dunno about that... a yottabyte is huge.

Actually, here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettabyte

"As of 2009, the entire World Wide Web was estimated to contain close to 500 exabytes.^[7] This is a half zettabyte."

So if that's true the current WWW is probably around a zettabyte.

Oops, actually I mistook exa- for yota-. 10^24 is obviously waay beyond reach haha.

Well given the rate the web of information is increasing, and assuming it is currently around 1 zettabyte (ie 1/1000th of the way)... I don't think it will be that long, maybe only 20-30 years or so. Hell it's about time they created some new ones, apparently zetta and yotta were introduced in 1991: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix#List_of_prefixes

I think we need one beginning with W... we could call it weta, then maybe a couple of hundred years from now people will be downloading from wetabit internet connections while they have weetabix for breakfast.

Yeah, I was just thinking about it and I estimated in my head the web would hold one yotabyte by 2030-2040, and something like 1,000 yotabytes by the turn of the century. I said beyond reach for personal computers mostly, since miniaturization should end before 2050. Maybe we could have a supercooled hard disk using a quantum processor and a highly redundant algorythm to store like a bit every thousand atoms, but that'd still be in the zetta- scale. 

Anyways we're kinda going off-topic here haha. Why don't we talk about the assassination market you can find going by the link the OP posted? Hey, that's kinda cool.