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mnmonte writes "Yesterday morning Opte.org announced that they have successfully mapped the entire internet. They are currently compiling a LGL map for all to see. Currently they have a LGL map that has 'over 5 million edges and has an estimated 50 million hop count'. Also only took them 252.68 hours to complete."
Maybe I'll finally be able to find out where I took that wrong turn...
I'll print it and give it to my wife. If she ever needs directions again on the web, I'll give her the map, slap my forhead and mumble 'oh yeah, that's right : women can't read maps'
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ooh i'm so bad
When will I end this grieving ? When will my future begin ?
Quick! They've done something really cool and clever. Let's Slashdot them back to the stone age. That'll teach them!
Reality is defined by the maddest person in the room
"Hey, I can see my house from up here!"
Trolling is a art,
How many copies of the goatse guy d'you think are in there?
Carousel is a lie!
Their site seems to be crawling. I thought for a minute we'd have to take them off the map.
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suwain_2
...and it only took 6 minutes to /. their server.
"...all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness..." yada yada
So now I finally know why the internet is so damned slow... people are purposely wasting bandwidth trying to 'map out' the internet, and all this time I thought it was a DDOS attack... or at the very least some new worm...silly me.
I wonder if there are people driving around during rush hour trying to 'map out' the city...
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The 'You are Here' arrow?
"Also only took them 252.68 hours to complete" is also the amount of time before their slashdotted servers will be back up to make the file available for download!
(1st sig) If this were a snappy sig, you'd be reading it right now. (2nd sig) I'm a karma whore. >Insert FUD here
As a woman I am betting that most of you men would still refuse to stop and ask for directions, no matter how big the map is.
A "You Are Here" sign... Reminds me the HHGTTG and the cookie machine which drove the wife crazy.
4Z5TX
I guess that black hole on the map is where OPTE used to be.
They use animated gifs to represent WiFi users.
heh, i have a comcast IP. i'm in NH and it says I am in Michigan.
/20 and i would do it ONCE for a large mushroom pizza.
As an aside, updating that physical location information is really easy. For instance, in north america, all our IPs are dished out by the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN). ARIN wants any contiguous block of IPs larger than 7 to have the information filled in. if lying doesnt work (your admin figures out that you're just too far out of the way, like 2 states over) you could just bribe them. or flatter them, like "heh, wouldnt it be funny if you could update that info... hahaa too bad you cant. yeeep. cant do it. be a genius if you could though." i'm an admin for a
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