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nutbastard
03/27/09

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nutbastard explains: The Internet The Internet is a worldwide electronic communications and multimedia network and was invented by Al Gore in 1998. It originally started as a more convenient way to circulate chain letters and advertisements, but has since evolved into a repository for pornography and educational information. Contrary to popular belief, The Internet is not a truck, but is, rather, a series of tubes. These tubes were first put in place by immigrant labor in the early 1900s, but credit for this innovation lies with the white people who toiled in hostile conditions for days on end, whipping the immigrants endlessly, and telling them to do it. When The Internet first came online, it was very difficult for its users to come online as well. The tubes that made up the original framework had rusted considerably over the last century, and developed performance inhibiting bottlenecks where stray ones and zeros became tangled and matted together. This made it impossible to even approach the ranges of PPPs (Porn Picture Per Second) that could be considered fapable in modern society. In order to alleviate all that was backed up, in 1999 larger diameter tubes were ordered installed worldwide. After this transition, the average users PPPs increased by an order of magnitude, which had the unintended effect of doubling both the divorce rate and instances of carpal tunnel syndrome, as well as tennis elbow and fappers thumb. Also of concern was the use of the internet by pedophiles and Nigerian con men. As a measure against some of the more nefarious evildoers, in 2001 President Bush ordered all dark corners of the internets to be cleared of lurkers. This is somewhat of a misstatement, though, as it is commonly known that the tubes are round, and thus free of corners. Regardless, congress promptly passed the Snake Act, which required that all tubes be periodically scraped and flushed of debris. The then popular web browser Mosaic was renamed Netscrape in honor of this glorious achievement. Having solved all the problems with the Internet in one fell swoop, users were now free to divulge their personal information with impunity through the use of social networking sites. However, additional complications have arisen subsequent to an Amendment to the Constitution that finally gave Women the right to log on. One problematic effect of that controversial decision that remains even today is the inability to establish the actual gender of anonymous correspondents. This has led most users to adopt the edict, "Male until proven otherwise". Additionally, the open nature of the Internet and the lack of user education has led to many viruses infecting and propagating through cyberspace. While it is commonly known now that accessing the Internet without protection is risky, the whole issue is complicated by a convoluted naming convention that labels some viruses "Trojans", which causes much confusion as to whether or not users need one, considering the Internet has its own. This confusion has resulted in a number of illnesses that inhibit users abilities to create original content. The most notable is First! Syndrome, which has a 12% saturation at the time of this writing. Other examples include Playdooms Disorder and Blends Disease, although these have been shown to be curable with treatment. Unfortunately First! Syndrome is still incurable and its victims are often ostracized when the fact of their infection becomes public. While a harsh practice, it is the only known effective method of curbing an ever climbing infection rate. The Internet continues to grow and enhance itself with the steady addition of newer, larger tubes, and shows no sign of slowing down. Although the Internet remains troubled, most people do not think it is teh suck.
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Takamofo
03/26/09

In reply to Sun Storing The Entire Internet In a Shipping Container
That's a lot of porn.
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Gordon McAlpin
03/26/09

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How much of that is porn, do you think? 50%? 75%?
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snakepliskin
03/26/09

@Gordon McAlpin: That thing is the most epic box of porn ever.
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Yeebles
03/27/09

@snakepliskin:

Actually only roughly 10% of it is porn. In the most recent survey in 2004 4 million websites were classified porn assuming that growth of websites has been at the same rate for porn and non-porn it should still be around that level.
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nutbastard
03/27/09

@Yeebles:

that all depends on whether or not this is just a page capture archive or a true archive of the complete internet. a porn website can have a hundred gigs of video while most sites are less than 1 gig.
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Hello Mister Walrus
03/26/09

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When I was a kid, I had a website on Angelfire. I don't know why the hell it was named that, but it gave me the most megabytes.
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nutbastard
03/27/09

@Hello Mister Walrus:

yup, they gave 10 when GC gave 5, and then 20 when GC gave 10.
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SJRNWT
03/26/09

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Why do I get the feeling that in 100 years, people will see this and just laugh?

Example: The size of floppy disks (both physical and digital) compared to the size of a SD card.
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Ghede
03/27/09

@SJRNWT: I think they will laugh when they crack open those containers and find half the data has become absolute gibberish, due to changing protocols and simple hardware limitations.

They really don't maintain them after the great tech crash of '73 as a result of the cyborg uprising earlier the same year.
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Purple Dave
03/27/09

@SJRNWT:
Nah. Figure that by the time they have enough data saved up to fill another shipping container, the technology will have advanced enough to reduce the physical storage by 50%, meaning that you'll just have to pull everything out of the first container, copy it over to the new container, and suddenly you've got _two_ internets stored in the same storage container.
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