I remember this used to be www.wwwdotcom.com but it seems the internet lasted longer than that page did.
You have reached the end of the internet (2006)
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#22What year do we predict internet.zip would be downloadable in say one day.
It occurs to me that downloading e.g. llama.cpp kind of is like downloading the whole internet? Or a very lossy-compressed version of it.
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#24My minimalist version has a better domain name:
Re: You have reached the end of the internet (2006)
#25What year do we predict internet.zip would be downloadable in say one day.
With a 100 Gbps connection, it would take 21.3 days, so it needs to get about 21x better than that.
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#26Now that we've reached the end of the Internet, enjoy instructions on how to get OFF the Internet.
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#27I remember back in the days the HTTP proxy of Sun Microsystems used to have a similar page when something went wrong. Always tried to find it again, but failed.
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#28It was fun while it lasted. For me the high point was Fark or maybe Homestar and the low point was obviosuly Facebook... or maybe the end of Democracy.
Fark and cracked in about 2007 were peak post development, profit motivated Internet. Homestar runner and albino black sheep (shout out to flashback for many fun dmt experiences) in about 2004 was peak fun Internet.
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#29I remember when this was new and it was still possible to conceive of the internet as finite. Simpler times. Is it possible to view the internet as finite these days? Is it actually possible to turn out the lights (touch grass) these days?
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#30It was fun while it lasted. For me the high point was Fark or maybe Homestar and the low point was obviosuly Facebook... or maybe the end of Democracy.
Interesting how internet boosters in the late 90s/early 2000s told us the internet would revitalize democracy by making it so anyone could publish. I'm not aware of a single cynic who successfully predicted how things actually ended up turning out. Nor have I seen much of an attempt to revisit those early predictions.