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Geek Culture / If you "Printed" the internet? [IMAGE INTESIVE]

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DJ Almix
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And more and more pages are added each second

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Venge
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Which is why we use electrons.


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Fallout
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What a load of statistical rubbish! Someone has literally just sat down and made that bull up.

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Melancholic
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Quote: "What a load of statistical rubbish! Someone has literally just sat down and made that bull up. "


Completly agree, how could they even moniter all that stuff?. Im just evrey minute some one makes a new FB account or Myspace account or one of thoase free hsot sites, they cant really monuter that can they?.
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Diru
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Posted: 6th Jan 2010 11:41
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And I think the internet would use much more pages.
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Melancholic
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Yeah, the part with twice many trees as in central part really made me think twice about this, and enough paper to cover half of long island..
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Fallout
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... not to mention, taking the printing one as an example, that some printers do 1 page per minute, and some do 100. And, if you printed every frame of video on YouTube, it'd probably take 8 squillion twillion mega giga years to do!

Ahh well. It's good for the layman to get an idea that the internet is more than google, amazon and ebay.

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Neuro Fuzzy
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oh yeah, plus, you can't just print out webpages, you have to get all of the information hosted on the internet too. Every frame of every video, every piece of info in every .exe, etc. etc. Not to mention that there would be thousands of duplicates.


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Kravenwolf
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Posted: 6th Jan 2010 14:10 Edited at: 6th Jan 2010 14:20
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Quote: "What a load of statistical rubbish!"


+1

Those statistics wouldn't even cover the amount of SPAM emails sent out each day; let alone everything on the internet.

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Keo C
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Why that's quite a lot of porn to print out.


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Outscape
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Quote: "Why that's quite a lot of porn to print out."


each frame.


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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 6th Jan 2010 17:38
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why not just print out teh codes? Even the data that makes up every image and every video and every sound clip.

Also, how long would it take to retrieve the character count of the internet? If it were doable.

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xplosys
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Posted: 6th Jan 2010 17:47
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Let's do it!

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Melancholic
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Posted: 6th Jan 2010 18:18 Edited at: 6th Jan 2010 18:18
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Quote: "Let's do it!"


Call me pessimistic, but how do you plan exactly on doing this?
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Seppuku Arts
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Start with www.a.com? Then www.a.net and so on.

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Happy Cheesecake
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I'm game.

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Me too!

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Tom J
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Posted: 6th Jan 2010 19:47 Edited at: 6th Jan 2010 19:48
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Start off small by printing off every page in existence on the TGC forums. Goooo oooon, you know you want to.
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xplosys
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Posted: 6th Jan 2010 21:08 Edited at: 6th Jan 2010 21:09
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Quote: "Call me pessimistic, but how do you plan exactly on doing this?"


Pessimistic.

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Melancholic
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Quote: "Quote: "Call me pessimistic, but how do you plan exactly on doing this?"

Pessimistic."


right after you finish that word count im gonna post here to make it un-accurate!
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Neuro Fuzzy
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Guys, we need to stop posting now, for accuracy's sake. We also need to communicate using nothing on that will be logged on the internet - landlines only. First communication will be in 0800 hours. Neuro Out.


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DJ Almix
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@Nero

Lol

@All

Really though I don't think anyone could have actually done these statistics I think there just estimates

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Yodaman Jer
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And by now these estimates are thousands of digits off, I imagine. So many facebook posts and Twitter-Tweets later, not to mention new accounts everywhere and constant backing-upping of files on the interwebs...

I read somewhere one time that the internet is said to take up around 500 exabytes (that's 500 billion gigabytes!). Ouch.


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lazerus
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Those stats probably will only cover The posting compettion, in about another two years we shall rule this forum!


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Quik
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just read the first posts and i wonder:: why does everyone take this so seriously? its probably just a joke

myself i find it cool and fun XD


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Zeus
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Posted: 6th Jan 2010 23:35
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Quote: "Those stats probably will only cover The posting compettion, in about another two years we shall rule this forum!"


Amen brother!

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Phaelax
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Those "statistics" make too many assumptions. It depends on on how fast an individual can read, the thickness of the paper, the size of a page, the size of the printed font, and how heavy the ink was printed to the paper (print quality). And how fast is that inkjet printer? Not to mention who's to say they wouldn't use recycled paper. There, 0 trees used.

Then again, if someone is printing the Internet out on fresh paper, then every new reply to this thread is destroying another forest.


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ShaunRW
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Quote: "Then again, if someone is printing the Internet out on fresh paper, then every new reply to this thread is destroying another forest."


There you go, destroyed another forest.

So did i.


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demons breath
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Posted: 7th Jan 2010 11:54
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Quote: "every new reply to this thread is destroying another forest"


I feel like Shiva

I HAVE POWER!

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Neuro Fuzzy
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Nooo! Stop it! You're killing the trees! Why can't we just all be friends?

Also, sorry rainforest I just killed.

...at least i'm not a JERK about it.


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Posted: 7th Jan 2010 15:42 Edited at: 7th Jan 2010 18:00
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ill start with
http://www.blanksite.com/

thats my share done


also!

if u put each page end to end you can go around our solarsystem 6 times!


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dark coder
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The book would weight 1.2 billion pounds eh, that's quite expensive. Also, they should have mentioned that buying that much ink would require more money than that which exists on this planet.

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demons breath
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Also that if you were to do a handstand for every page on the internet your hands would be eroded entirely before you'd completed the first 20%

Or that if each word was actually an oompa loompa, and they were clustered into a large orb, the resultant oompa-loompa-planet would be much larger than the sun.

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Robert F
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Quote: "Also, they should have mentioned that buying that much ink would require more money than that which exists on this planet."


Actaully Bill Gates alone could buy it. It would only be $1,458,000,000 if you were to buy these cartridges:

http://www.shoplet.com/HP-CC659FN-Vivera-Ink/HEWCC659FN/spdv
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What hosts the Internet anyway? there must be something that controls it...Or am i wrong?



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Neuro Fuzzy
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each individual server computer hosts (can host) information to be downloaded. Websites' IP addresses are distributed via a DNS server, which basically turns "www.google.com" into "99.14.52.545.26" (or whatever).


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I don't understand DNS, how does it transform www.google.co.uk into an IP address, unless it already knew the ip for google in the first place? Or are DNS servers hosted by the ISP?

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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There's a DNS server out there, probably owned by your ISP, which has a list of IPs and corresponding hostnames.

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General Jackson
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Rainforest DOWN!


Muahahhahhahahahhah

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isnt that what registering a domain name is, registering your ip to the isps?

Quote: "Rainforest DOWN!"

Well if u chop down every tree, then we suffocate..
and think of all the wood items we wont have, books, tables, gun parts, hacksaws(hammers etc)... ok i cant think of any more


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Quote: "isnt that what registering a domain name is, registering your ip to the isps?"


I don't know :S there are so many, how can they stay in sync with eachother, and who do you pay the money to?

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General Jackson
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Quote: "gun parts"


Complete reverse: Save the trees

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Drew Cameron
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I *think* there are various bodies that keep track of all domain names such as Nominet in the UK?

And companies don't always keep in sync, sometimes sites dont work in some geographical areas for this reason.

Interesting question though man, it is quite complicated !

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