A googolbyte is ten thousand trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion (that’s right, 8 of them) bytes of data. Supposedly more bytes of data than exist atoms in this universe. When we finally catalog a googolbyte of information, we’ll have to use parallel dimensions as the storage medium. Which will probably be stored holographically, so the parallel dimension we harness as a hard drive will actually just look like ours. Neat, huh?
I think I got that right. Them’s a lotta zereos so i just calculated 12 (number of zeros in 1 trillion) and multiplied that by 8, for 96 zeros, then added ten thousand for the extra four zeros to get 100 zeros. When our ancestors invented the zero, I bet they had no idea it could be used to express such unimaginably large numbers. They thought it would be forever nothing, but it turned out to be a powerful invention in the science of counting.