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Re: How big is the Internet?
From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon () cox net>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:59:19 -0500
On 8/14/2013 1:29 PM, Scott Howard wrote:
To paraphrase Douglas Adams... "The Internet is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space!"
It occurred to me that discussing the size of the Internet is a lot like discussing cosmology (for somebody like me that is not well schooled in either art-form).
-- Requiescas in pace o email Two identifying characteristics of System Administrators: Ex turpi causa non oritur actio Infallibility, and the ability to learn from their mistakes. (Adapted from Stephen Pinker)
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