What is web?

Web is a collection of LAN (Local Area Networks), WAN (Wide Area Network) and MAN (Metropolitan Area Network). This means there is a lot of stuff being shared on the internet. So is the stuff being shared useful or useless? It depends on how you use the stuff. Some times the stuff is very good, websites like Wikipedia, Britannica, etc are very good sites for information on any thing. They are like electronic encyclopedia. You can search for any thing you want. A myth about the internet is “Web ruins the kids”. No, I strongly disagree. It solely depends on how internet is used.

So what else is there? You can use search engines to find any thing on the internet. I personally think you can get possibly any thing you want from the internet. A very good example that I would like to say about the internet is like looking for a drop of water in an ocean. Though it sounds very weird, how can one look for water in an ocean where an ocean is full with water. I have no idea about how man y web pages exist on the web. But just as an instance, 10 million web pages are there. And each web page has 100 words per average. This means there are 1 billion words, which is just a talk. Reading 1 billion words is not a joke.

Even if 100 pages meet your criteria of search, there will be 10 thousand words, this is still a lot. So potentially I would say being able to read and understand the information on the internet is rather a complicated task. Internet is a collection of useful as well as some useless information. How to look for the right information? Read more on searching, tips for searching, and how to search.

One single encyclopedia contains a lot of information. So if the web contains all the encyclopedias, how much information there will be? Let’s see a little numerical data to prove it.

1 encyclopedia = 3 DVD’s =4.7*3=14.1 GB=144384.4 MB

If there are 500 encyclopedias Total size = 14.1*500=7050 GB= 7219200MB of information

And for example at average 1 MB= 10 words; 7219200/10=721920 words.

And normally an alphabet is not even 1 KB. So there can be far more words than a billion words. This is just rough calculations if I be a little more precise. And say one alphabet=4bytes=3.814*10^-06MB

This will mean there are 1.2*10^12 alphabets. So can you possibly regret the fact there is not much information. I guess no, because the fact that web is full of information so relax, and start reading. And Web is no doubt a huge network.