KassingerShades of greyJoin Date: 2002-02-20Member: 229Members, Constellation
edited May 2007
<!--QuoteBegin-An email I sent to Writing Internet History+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(An email I sent to Writing Internet History)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin--> And 1,1 billion internet users, is that how many who's using the internet during a year? A month? How many are using the internet during a summer day? And how many of them are people on business trips, using cell phones to expensively surf? How many of these are poor people in third world countries that only have limited access to internet? How many of these 1,1 billion don't even speak English? And basically, there is so much competition for peoples attention that I can see no way people would do this just to prove who's the bigger boy of you and your friend. To start a craze, you have to give people proper motivation to really want to remember this. Possibly donating large sums of money to a humanitarian cause if successful might perhaps gain some interest.
Yes, my most important question would be, how many people are on the internet on any given day?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Bandwidth and such aren't an issue as long as the money is right and the webpage is just a counter. Let's do some math:
Say the page is nothing more than some text and a counter. This would be a gross over-estimate, but for argument's sake let's say the page and all that needs to be downloaded to each user sums to 50KB. For a billion users in one day, that's 50 billion KB or 50,000 Gigabytes / 50 Terabytes of transfer in one day. That's quite a sum, but it's not like it would break the world. There's some estimates that youTube does up to <a href="http://blog.forret.com/2006/05/youtube-bandwidth-terabytes-per-day/" target="_blank">100 Terabytes a day</a>.
I'm pretty sure 50 TB of bandwidth would murder the pockets of a lowly 18 year old college student, however. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
But, if this is supposed to go down in less than a month, there's no way in hell. I didn't know about it until you posted this, and if my patterns are similar to even 10% of the online population, then at least 110 million other people also don't know about this and probably won't know about it before the mythical 7-7-7 deadline. That's enough to bring 1.1 billion down to 0.99 billion before we even factor in the lazy and forgetful people.
I bet he doesn't even have a facebook group.
[edit]Ack, I just read that he's trying to sell ads. That'll explode the page size count depending on how many and what size. I wouldn't give him any money... that's for sure.
KassingerShades of greyJoin Date: 2002-02-20Member: 229Members, Constellation
edited May 2007
I really can't see how he can imagine the absolute majority of the whole internet world, meaning so many different cultures and countries, gathering for his page.
Even attempting to get 90% of his fellow Dutch net surfers seems...<i>hard</i>.
<!--quoteo(post=1628128:date=May 20 2007, 07:22 PM:name=nizb0ag)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(nizb0ag @ May 20 2007, 07:22 PM) [snapback]1628128[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> You dont know that, im sure there are more then 1.1 billion users lol. I dont give a crap what some nutjob thinks there is more then 1.1 billion internet users <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Maybe in total more then 1.1 bil use the internet, but his statistic refers to online in one day. Many people only use the internet 'gasp' every few days or weeks.
Im guess-timating that he will MAYBE get 100 mil unique, and that's if they gets really well known.
<!--quoteo(post=1628128:date=May 21 2007, 01:22 AM:name=nizb0ag)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(nizb0ag @ May 21 2007, 01:22 AM) [snapback]1628128[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> You dont know that, im sure there are more then 1.1 billion users lol. I dont give a crap what some nutjob thinks there is more then 1.1 billion internet users <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> And every single one of them is going to visit his page? Not going to happen.
<!--quoteo(post=1628128:date=May 20 2007, 07:22 PM:name=nizb0ag)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(nizb0ag @ May 20 2007, 07:22 PM) [snapback]1628128[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> You dont know that, im sure there are more then 1.1 billion users lol. I dont give a crap what some nutjob thinks there is more then 1.1 billion internet users <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
We should all be as frugal with our solid waste products as you are.
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Yes, my most important question would be, how many people are on the internet on any given day?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Say the page is nothing more than some text and a counter. This would be a gross over-estimate, but for argument's sake let's say the page and all that needs to be downloaded to each user sums to 50KB. For a billion users in one day, that's 50 billion KB or 50,000 Gigabytes / 50 Terabytes of transfer in one day. That's quite a sum, but it's not like it would break the world. There's some estimates that youTube does up to <a href="http://blog.forret.com/2006/05/youtube-bandwidth-terabytes-per-day/" target="_blank">100 Terabytes a day</a>.
I'm pretty sure 50 TB of bandwidth would murder the pockets of a lowly 18 year old college student, however. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
But, if this is supposed to go down in less than a month, there's no way in hell. I didn't know about it until you posted this, and if my patterns are similar to even 10% of the online population, then at least 110 million other people also don't know about this and probably won't know about it before the mythical 7-7-7 deadline. That's enough to bring 1.1 billion down to 0.99 billion before we even factor in the lazy and forgetful people.
I bet he doesn't even have a facebook group.
[edit]Ack, I just read that he's trying to sell ads. That'll explode the page size count depending on how many and what size. I wouldn't give him any money... that's for sure.
Even attempting to get 90% of his fellow Dutch net surfers seems...<i>hard</i>.
You dont know that, im sure there are more then 1.1 billion users lol. I dont give a crap what some nutjob thinks there is more then 1.1 billion internet users
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Maybe in total more then 1.1 bil use the internet, but his statistic refers to online in one day. Many people only use the internet 'gasp' every few days or weeks.
Im guess-timating that he will MAYBE get 100 mil unique, and that's if they gets really well known.
You dont know that, im sure there are more then 1.1 billion users lol. I dont give a crap what some nutjob thinks there is more then 1.1 billion internet users
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And every single one of them is going to visit his page? Not going to happen.
You dont know that, im sure there are more then 1.1 billion users lol. I dont give a crap what some nutjob thinks there is more then 1.1 billion internet users
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We should all be as frugal with our solid waste products as you are.
Also, lolf: the kid would need to push and maintain a constant 607MB/sec or 4855Mb/s (that's almost five maxed gigabit cards) for the whole day
Also, lolf: the kid would need to push and maintain a constant 607MB/sec or 4855Mb/s (that's almost five maxed gigabit cards) for the whole day
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lol, thats insane.