50g. About the same weight as a large strawberry (or three times that much if you include all the information stored on personal computers and not just servers).
As Michael from Vsauce explains, the electrons that power cat videos have mass.
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MTV’s Kurt Loder and some of 1995’s finest celebs share their thoughts on the ‘information superhighway’ and the proliferation of ‘special interest truckstops’ called ‘websites’.
Feel old. Feel very old.
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Paul Mutant nails the ludicrousness of territorial rights enforcement in the age of the internet.
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Above: Kilroy Was Here (pre-WW2), Frodo Lives (1960s), Mad Magazine’s Alfred E Neuman (likely derived from 19th century anti-Irish caricatures) and the Sator Square (created at the time of the Roman Empire).
…you already know what a “meme” is. But you may not realize that the concept — a meaningless phrase, image or joke getting repeated endlessly for no reason at all — predates the Internet generation by a long shot. Although it was more difficult for a phrase or image to “go viral” before all this technology, pointless memes still found their way to every corner of the globe.
7 Memes That Went Viral Before The Internet Existed (Cracked)
The Canadian Radiotelecommunications Commission (CRTC) has proposed a usage-based internet billing system. If it survives federal scrutiny, will leave consumers typically paying over $2 per gigabyte for all bandwidth usage over a modest 25GB.
It’s called ‘metered internet’. More money, less internet.
HardCop reader Brian S-Q sums it all up rather succinctly in the image above.
CRTC Internet Decision Gouges Users (The Vancouver Sun)
Canada Gets Its First Bitter Dose Of Metered Internet (Ars Technica)