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Internet Emulator

Posted by michael on from the real-or-memorex dept.

John3 writes "InternetNewsM is reporting that PlanetLab is getting closer to reality. According to this article, a consortium of universities (including Princeton) is launching a test-bed platform based on Red Hat Linux. This project is different than Internet2 or some of the other "alternate Internet" networks being developed, and seems to offer the most benefit to distributed computing projects rather than generic WAN/Internet communications."

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  1. This has exsited for ages. by Chris_Stankowitz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Its call AOL!

  2. REQ: Internet ROM by generic-man · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please send me a copy of the Internet with which I can use this emulator. The preferred means is a station wagon full of DVD-R media.

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    1. Re:REQ: Internet ROM by TedCheshireAcad · · Score: 4, Funny

      Maybe you can download it from IRC? I don't know, I think they're still figuring out how to rip it.

    2. Re:REQ: Internet ROM by Exiler · · Score: 5, Funny

      wget *

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      Banaaaana!
    3. Re:REQ: Internet ROM by American+AC+in+Paris · · Score: 4, Funny
      Please send me a copy of the Internet with which I can use this emulator. The preferred means is a station wagon full of DVD-R media.

      (+1, Underestimated)

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    4. Re:REQ: Internet ROM by SoSueMe · · Score: 3, Funny

      try this

    5. Re:REQ: Internet ROM by jared_hanson · · Score: 5, Funny

      And today, kids, we are going to learn a very important lesson. When someone makes a joke, you should laugh, rather than take it seriously and analyze its details.

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    6. Re:REQ: Internet ROM by skaap · · Score: 5, Funny

      At least it's first result isnt Al Gore's homepage... :)

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    7. Re:REQ: Internet ROM by Surak · · Score: 5, Funny

      Phew. Okay. here's the google cache in case it gets Slashdotted!

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    8. Re:REQ: Internet ROM by Zarhan · · Score: 3, Funny

      Phew. Okay. here's the google cache in case it gets Slashdotted!

      I like the notice on their cached page:

      Google is not affiliated with the authors of this page nor responsible for its content

  3. Here's my Internet Emulator by jaylee7877 · · Score: 4, Funny

    #ping 127.0.0.1 #ftp 127.0.0.1 #lynx http://127.0.0.1 #nmap -O 127.0.0.1 Who needs Cable/DSL when you have connectivity to localhost, it's the fastest thing out there!

    1. Re:Here's my Internet Emulator by larry+bagina · · Score: 3, Funny

      I don't want to know what your "sex emulator" involves!

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      Do you even lift?

      These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

  4. Re:Is it just me... by larry+bagina · · Score: 3, Funny

    that's what makes it an internet emulator

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    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

  5. Lemmie guess... by Matey-O · · Score: 4, Funny

    SOMEBODY'S been watching a little too much Matrix lately.

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  6. Re:Is it just me... by TedCheshireAcad · · Score: 5, Funny

    Quiet.

    They're enabling the empowerment and synergy of the new paradigm.

  7. Oh please... by Geekenstein · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's nothing. I just invented an internet emulator emulator. Beat that!

  8. Did someone say Internet Emulator? by wiggys · · Score: 5, Funny

    Check this out!

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    Sorry, but my karma just ran over your dogma.

  9. A meta-testbed by MonkeyBoyo · · Score: 3, Funny
    A Planet Lab pagesays:
    PlanetLab also serves as a meta testbed on which multiple, more narrowly-defined virtual testbeds can be deployed. That is, if we generalize the notion of a service to include what might traditionally be thought of as a testbed, then multiple virtual testbeds can be deployed on PlanetLab.
    Any time a discussion starts to use the word meta you know you have achieved buzzword satori and can stop reading.

    Anything you can do I can do meta. I can do anything meta than you.
  10. PlanetLab network behavior by seekohler · · Score: 3, Funny
    From their homepage:
    " ... network services deployed on PlanetLab experience all of the behaviors of the real Internet where the only thing predictable is unpredictability (latency, bandwidth, paths taken)."
    So... they Slashdot themselves?
  11. Internet Emulator by athakur999 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I tried out this "Internet Emulator", went the emulated Google page, and tried searching for "naked pictures of Carrie Ann Moss" and did not get a single hit.

    If this thing can't even emulate the most basic function of the Internet, I don't know how it's gonna succeed.

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  12. In other news by Lane.exe · · Score: 4, Funny
    Al Gore sues for IP infringment.

    What? Not funny anymore? Guess I'll go hang myself then.

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  13. I thought you said Internet Explorer Emulator by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    And was having difficulty thinking why anyone in their right mind would ever want to emulate Internet Explorer.

  14. Who wants to "Emulate" the Internet? by James+Littiebrant · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...I'll just download it onto my new G5 with a few more hard drives...

  15. Internet Emulator? by wo1verin3 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does someone know where I can download roms?