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BlueSky · Mar 20, 2006, 10:47 AM

A nine year old intends to print the internet.

Dorothy and Dwight Darnell, were surprised last week when they discovered reams of pages printed from the Internet in their son Cody's bedroom and learned of his plan to print a hard copy of all of the Internet to win a $50 bet with his seventeen year old cousin, Mikey Darnell-Wilson. The bet came about during the main course of the family's Thanksgiving lunch after a heated debate between Cody and Mikey about the size of the Internet and the feasibility of printing it out. Under the terms of the bet, Cody has six months to complete the printing and if Mikey can find a site on the Internet which has not been printed he wins the bet, if he can’t he loses.

Dakar · Mar 20, 2006, 10:49 AM

And his parents will lose an additional $50 in paper...

residentEvil · Mar 20, 2006, 10:50 AM

Even if you were to print the internet in 2pt and 64 up per page, duplex, it would cost more than $50 in paper

Chuckit · Mar 20, 2006, 10:52 AM

That's child exploitation.

baw · Mar 20, 2006, 10:52 AM

Haha

turtle777 · Mar 20, 2006, 10:54 AM

Muahahahaha That's one of the dumbest things I've heard in a while.

This kid must have the IQ of a hampstor.

-t

residentEvil · Mar 20, 2006, 11:11 AM

I could put a room together, say 100000 sqf of space, with 40ppm printers and pay someone full time to keep all the printers filled with paper and toner, and still wouldn't be done in 6 months

that might get one thru all the sites that begin with the letter "a".

hahaha

angelmb · Mar 20, 2006, 02:53 PM

<Homer Simpson mode>

Internet! Is that thing still around?

angelmb · Mar 20, 2006, 02:54 PM

<Homer Simpson mode>

They have the Internet on computers, now?

olePigeon · Mar 20, 2006, 03:52 PM

OK, boys, let's buy him out!

kikkoman · Mar 20, 2006, 03:55 PM

Print to PDF?

davesimondotcom · Mar 20, 2006, 03:59 PM

Originally Posted by kikkoman

Print to PDF?

Got infinite storage?

This is a pretty funny story. The 15 year old would just have to wait until the kid got done and then bring up some site that a 9 year old would never have thought of going to.

"You have reached the end of the internet..."

Eug Wanker · Mar 20, 2006, 04:05 PM

Originally Posted by what_the_heck

This kid must have the IQ of a hampstor.

Was that supposed to be a joke?

d4nth3m4n · Mar 20, 2006, 04:13 PM

that's about this level of understanding-

<NES> lol
<NES> I download something from Napster
<NES> And the same guy I downloaded it from starts downloading it from me when I'm done
<NES> I message him and say "What are you doing? I just got that from you"
<NES> "getting my song back f*cker"

yeah, i got that off bash.org, what?

turtle777 · Mar 20, 2006, 04:40 PM

Originally Posted by Eug Wanker

Was that supposed to be a joke?

No, the million dollar question !

-t

d4nth3m4n · 06:36 PM

i posted this on another forum, someone else posted this, check this out-

Okay

lets, for some reason, be logical about this:

Let's say there's gonna be approximately 3500 characters (bytes) per page. This is a very very conservative estimate, since 3500 characters is pretty much the most you can fit on one page. This doesn't include paragraphs, line breaks, images, menus, or anything that might add to the overal dimensions of a printed web page.

Now, as of 2003, there was approximately 532,897 TB of data on the internet. We can cancel a lot of that out from Emails and "Deep Web" which is the backend of websites. Stuff like databases. (http://www.sims.berkeley.edu:8000/re...3/internet.htm)

So, let's take the % of the internet that is the "surface". As of 2003, roughly 17.7% of the Internet was made up of HTML. So let's just assume there's 90TB (17% of 532) of web pages out there.

Since I'm lazy and suck at math, let's also assume 1024 = 1000.

90 TB = 90,000 GB = 900,000,000 MB = 900,000,000,000,000 KB = 900,000,000,000,000,000 B

Now, at 3500 bytes per page, that would account for... well...

900,000,000,000,000,000 / 3500 = 2,571,428,571,428,571 pages. Yes that's right, it would take 2 quadrillion pages to print the internet.

Let's look at the paper costs, then. The cheapest office paper is roughly one half cent per page. (http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article...,114728,00.asp).

So, 2,571,428,571,428,571 pages at $0.005 per page, paper costs would be roughly: $12,857,142,857,142.85.

$12 trillion.

Someone else can figure out Ink and printers if they want... but yeah. 10 bux says this kid fails.