The tangled – and crowded – web we weave…

35 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute (April 2011)

If you watched YouTube videos 24 hours a day it would take almost six years to watch all the video uploaded in one day (April 2011)

Assuming the information stored in a memory chip is comprised of 40,000 electrons, the total weight of all the information flowing across the internet would be two millionths of an ounce, or about the weight of a grain of sand.

If you printed Twitter, the 7 billion tweets would be roughly equal to 130,000 copies of the King James Bible (January 2010)

If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest in the world behind India and China.

The current addressing system used for the internet is running out of addresses in 2011. Not to worry. When the new system is fully operational, there will be enough addresses to individually tag every object in your immediate environment.

Google Books estimates there are about 129,865,000 books in existence, and they plan to scan them all. If you read one book a day, it would take you about 355,794 years to read them all.