Estimated size of the internet

Estimates are that between Google, Amazon, Facebook and the dreaded Microsoft web servers there are 1.2 exabytes of data. That is 1,200 petabytes, which is 1,200,000 terabytes, which is 1,200,000,000 gigabytes. To put this in perspective, the average laptop these days has a 500 gigabyte hard drive. The above figures do not include the vast amounts of data available on  Dropbox, Barracuda, SugarSync, the massive servers in industry and academia. Suffice to say the internet is very big. I hope these figures I found are accurate. There are currently 50 billion web pages on the internet. The last figure I heard on the earth’s population was 6 billion and and 775 million of them cannot read. There are 131 million children born each year, multiply that by 5 and you get 665 million under the age of 5. Most of them are not creating web pages. So 4.5 billion people are able to read or create a web page, making more than 10 web pages per person who can read or write them. So if I have done my math properly (not being used to the gigantic numbers involved) there are 266,666 bytes of data for everyone on the planet who could read. Finally, if we consider that the numbers above are only for a portion of the internet, we can at least double every figure on this page, except the world population number. So if we can get the entire reading world together and everyone read his/her share, by all reading 533,333 bytes each, we could read all that is available on the internet, that is if we could do it in the next second, because the internet is growing every second of every day.