What did the Internet cost? - Boing Boing
Some of the responses are very interesting.
Hey there. I'm a student of the School of Library and Information Sciences at the University of Iowa. Our beloved sadist, er, professor has asked us as a class to figure out how much the internet costs. All of it, globally, from the very beginning. The electricity it takes to run every server, every laptop. The salaries. The grants. The cost of every bit of fiber optic cable in the ground around the world, every little detail.
Some of the responses are very interesting.
