how many computers are there on the internet?

[olliem36]

how many computers are there on the internet?

[wolf63]

lots and lots and lots and ...........

[Paulacrazyplaits]

Hi olliem36 I've got no idea but what a great question!

[Lie-in King]

http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

[AB Editor]

82% of the UK have access: http://www.google.co....ze=0.035&iconSize=0.5

and 27% of the entire world.

As for the number of actual devices capable of using the internet... lots...

[Squitty]

Is there only one Internet then Ed?

[AB Editor]

No, but I think that's being picky - you understand what the user is asking don't you? As unanswerable as it may be.

[Maydup]

People and computers host websites and other people and their computers or devices access them. Collectively its called the internet but there is no single collective arrangement.

How many computers and devices have access to the internet might work as a question. Answer is billions and billions.

[ChuckFickens]

There is no way of ever knowing the answer to this.

Ignoring questions such as what is a computer (my phones on the internet, is that a computer or not?) you also have the problem of NAT, which means that hundreds of computers share one link to the internet so from the outside that would look like one computer whereas in reality it might be several hundred computers.

[olliem36]

Hello, thank you all for your input, that's an interesting point about NAT. I was wondering, i suppose the internet has some sort of capacity, i heard on the news recently that the number of IP address where running out or something?

[Nibble]

At the very top of the internet there used to be 13 computers, whose address is . This being the very end of an IP address, but notusually typed, it's just taken as an implied address.

[jake-the-peg]

2.2 billion (assuming one per user)

http://www.worldometers.info/

18th down

[MarkRae]

http://ipv4countdown.net/

[ChuckFickens]

IP addresses (IPv4) have been running out since the 90s, NAT was/is the primary way that the lifespan of the existing range of IPv4 IP addresses has been increased (as a side effect more or less it also greatly increases security).

IPv6 has been on the cards for some time now but hasn't really been widely implemented yet, but once it is it will increase the maximum amount of IP addresses from 4294967296 to 340Sextillion addresses (which is enough for every single person on the earth to have 51557934381960373252026455671 IP addresses as personal, unique addresses!)

[jake-the-peg]

Yes depends what you mean by a "computer" too.

My TV's on the net now - I dare say some cars will be soon

[JudieJaws]

Do you think we are in danger of becoming a "Borg" collective... lol