Need 136 billion pages of A4 paper to print out Internet content

Have you ever thought about printing all the content on the Internet to a paper page?

To print out all Internet content needs . 136 billion A4 pages

A group of students at the University of Leicester recently had a solution to this conundrum. First, the team estimates the number of pages enough to print the entire display content of each website (note that only the content is displayed, and searchable on those sites). They estimate an average Wikipedia article costs 15 pages of A4 to print.

According to this group, the current Internet world has a preliminary 4.54 billion web pages and an average tree can produce 8,500 pages of paper. From these data can deduce all the content on the Internet requires 8,011,765 trees or 68,100,002,500 pages of paper to print. However, the number of 15 A4 pages on each site is only an average estimate, so they double this number and produce the final result of about 136 billion pages.

To conclude the study, the group also said that this result is only for websites that exist on the Internet. In other words, websites that are hidden or content in the Deep Web will not be counted here. " The content in public websites (not Deep Web) usually accounts for only about 0.2% of the total Internet content ," the group said.