How long would it take to download the entire internet?

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The correct answer is `Three million years´.

It would take around three million years to download all the information currently on the internet, assuming a download speed of 44 megabits per second. There are an estimated 550 trillion megabytes of data on the web.

A world of information at your fingertips.
Thank physics for that.

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