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Re: How big is the Internet?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lyle Giese)
Wed Aug 14 22:31:11 2013

Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 21:30:13 -0500
From: Lyle Giese <lyle@lcrcomputer.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <520BE1CC.4020706@gmail.com>
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On 08/14/13 15:00, Roy wrote:
> On 8/14/2013 11:29 AM, 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!"
>>
>>    Scott
>>
>
> So the correct answer is 42?
>
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Researchers have complained for years about the lack of good
>>> statistics about the internet for a couple fo decades, since the
>>> end of NSFNET statistics.
>>>
Now finally we have the answer.  And we are still working on the correct 
question(if that's possible)!


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Lyle Giese
LCR Computer Services, Inc

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