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I think if you tried to do this even on a daily basis, let alone real-time, the internet would melt. Facebook is the 3rd largest country in the world by population. Tracking its traffic alone would scare even the most paralleled, multi-whatsit computer into therapy. |
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I did, and found it. It's all around us, like air and love and mythical deities. Conclusion: Internet is an essential, "caring" god who doesn't answer our prayers; doesn't really notice whether we're around or not and doesn't sustain us physically. Maybe Internet is the potential cure for all previous religious strife? |
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..."Basketball. That's the Dallas-Fort Worth Sunbelt Co-Prosperity sphere, you wanna get your ass down fast, all the way, then run how I told you"... |
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..."as they plunged down into the workaday depths of cyberspace, the glowing Basketball dwindling above them." |
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William Gibson - "Count Zero" |
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bun for providing free ISP services in all countries of
the world and yet still making money. |
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There are many 'maps of the internet' out there. |
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You wouldn't need to monitor the world's traffic
necessarily, just collect a number from each website. |
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Could this be sketched by sampling, say, one packet in every
billion? |
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