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Worlds Largest Computer Party, In Progress

Posted by timothy on from the think-of-the-electric-bill dept.

cyb97 writes "As I write this the worlds largest computerparty is going on in Hamar, Norway. The Gathering 2003 is in action with over 5.000 participants! Webcams and participants are live on the internet through a 1 gigabit line, so you better lock down your servers tonight!" Some of the webcam images are just surreal. Update: 04/17 01:00 GMT by T : Speaking of images, reader vvizard (currently Gathered) directs you to this directory of high-resolution images.

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  1. Yeah, It's in China! by tommck · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Oh... wait... that's the World's Largest Communist Party!

    T

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  2. Re:In most of Europe by MalleusEBHC · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    What, do you think we are gullibe? Next thing you are going to tell me they do something weird like switch the month and day around when giving the date.

  3. Re: month and day by TeknoHog · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Consider decimal numbers: 342 means 3 hundred + 4 tens + 2 units. It's in that order because hundred > ten > unity.

    To do the same with dates, you might say 2003/04/17 because year > month > day. Alternatively, 17/04/2003 is pretty good because day < month < year and things are in order.

    I'm not trolling against Americans. Just pointing out that dates and times are much like decimal numbers, where the position of a digit tells its order of magnitude. It's much easier when the orders of magnitude are in some logical order.

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