Where is the Internet? Does it have a limit of information it can hold?
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You can think of the Internet as the phone system. In fact they are built on the same physical infrastructure which is why it is mostly phone companies who have become Internet Service Providers. So “The Internet” is everywhere and does not store much information on its own. However it transfers information between all the connected users and services. So it is rather the different services that usually hold information. So Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Reddit, Wikipedia, etc. are all independent services with their own locations around the world and holds different information but all available through the Internet. Most of these services are hosted in data centers which is dedicated buildings for running computers. They are designed with the power, cooling and Internet bandwidth required to run lots of servers to host services. The big providers usually have their own datacenters but most smaller services are colocated in other datacenters.
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