[164977] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How big is the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Wed Aug 14 18:59:52 2013
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:59:19 -0500
From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CiWw1m0021Una3W01iWxt8>
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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).
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