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xkcd's 13-Gigapixel Webcomic

Posted by Soulskill on from the all-the-pixels-you-need-and-more dept.

New submitter Nomen writes "Today's xkcd: Click and Drag (Google Maps version) is probably the world's biggest web comic at an RSI-inducing resolution of 165,888x79,872 pixels. It's made up of 225 different images that take up 5.52MB of space. Now, if only the mines were powered by nethack..."

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  1. I was actually disappointed by this. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I check XKCD for a quick joke in the morning... generally takes just a minute.

    To fully get this, I'd have to spend hours clicking and dragging... totally against the point of webcomics IMO.