Personality
Discuss specifics of personality design, including what Keyphrases work well and what dont, use of plug-ins, responses, seeks, and more.
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Yeah, but how big is it if we filter out the porn sites?
I don't think I even want to know the answer to that one.
As far at the "end of the internet" It was off a comerical long time ago. I found it amusing to me for the facts that you guys are stating above. The comerical kinda stuck with me anyway.
Nobody wants to reach the end of internet, you would me completely disturbed by the time you were done.
Just give me the PF, a few gaming sites and some good ol' christian content and im fine. whats that got to be? a few hunderd sites? and the rest out there is just porn... Sad sad world.
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Oh, it's all too big now to hope to see more than a very small part of. It was different 20 years ago - you really could have a feel for the whole Net. There were only a couple of hundred newsgroups, and gopher was cutting edge IT. When it slowed down, it all slowed down, and you could still see the edges.
But then Canter and Siegel invented spam, the Web appeared, and like Topsy - it all just growed.
I do miss the old Net. I still have my first ever modem - 75baud send, 1200baud receive (that's about 25,000x slower uploading/1600x slower downloading than my current broadband connection!) Ahh, those were the days!
But then Canter and Siegel invented spam, the Web appeared, and like Topsy - it all just growed.
I do miss the old Net. I still have my first ever modem - 75baud send, 1200baud receive (that's about 25,000x slower uploading/1600x slower downloading than my current broadband connection!) Ahh, those were the days!
On a related note, I am quite grateful that Google now has filtered searching available. You can find some really...disturbing sites with seemingly innocuous searches, as I discovered before filtering was available.
In 2003, this statistical survey showed an estimate at the size of the internet in terabytes.
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/internet.htm
It showed that in 2002, the estimated size was 533 Petabytes, or 532,897 Terabytes, or 532,897,000 Gigabytes. That was in 2002. It is now 2006. The Internet has grown 169.5% from 2000 - 2005 (http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm). I would guess 100%/169.5% of that growth took place between 2002 - 2005. If we multiply 532,897 by 2, we get 1,065,794 Terabytes, or 1 Exabyte. I believe that if a human being spent his/her entire life (starting at the age of literacy) reading internet content, give 8 hours a day for sleeping, eating, and hygiene, they would only cover about 1 terabyte if they are an extraordinary reader. And if that's not enough, imagine how much the internet's rate of growth is going to increase over the next few years, so in the time a human would cover a few gigabytes, the internet will have expanded a few hundred or thousand petabytes. Good luck attempting to reach the "end of the internet"...
As far at the "end of the internet" It was off a comerical long time ago. I found it amusing to me for the facts that you guys are stating above. The comerical kinda stuck with me anyway.
Nobody wants to reach the end of internet, you would me completely disturbed by the time you were done. Just give me the PF, a few gaming sites and some good ol' christian content and im fine. whats that got to be? a few hunderd sites? and the rest out there is just porn... Sad sad world.
>maroon>I would guess that pronography constitutes 3% of the internet.
In data volume, perhaps. In bandwidth downloaded, I'll bet it's a lot more.
I remember hearing last year that bittorrent accounted for a third of all bandwidth used.
In data volume, perhaps. In bandwidth downloaded, I'll bet it's a lot more.
I remember hearing last year that bittorrent accounted for a third of all bandwidth used.
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