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Will the new Millenium be an age that's studied in depth in the future?
We have:
The internets
Terrorism
War
Plague (possibly)
Recession
Technology
Medicine & medical science (cloning etc)
...personally I think the internet will be the bigger issue with regards to study unless the pig-flu or something else (Nukes?) bigger takes the headlines.
We have:
The internets
Terrorism
War
Plague (possibly)
Recession
Technology
Medicine & medical science (cloning etc)
...personally I think the internet will be the bigger issue with regards to study unless the pig-flu or something else (Nukes?) bigger takes the headlines.
I reckon your right.
'It's a well-known fact that the search engines are indexing only a small part of the entire Internet content.
But what is the Internet's exact size, especially since the 2005 boom has added 17 million new sites?
In his speech at the annual conference
of the National Advertisers Association, Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, said that, from the data recorded by the search engine, it seems that, at this specific moment, the Internet is made up of 5 million terabytes.
Even Google, which is considered currently the best search engine ever, has succeeded to index only 170 terabytes up until now, Schmidt said.
Google has been indexing information for 7 years, and if you want to have an idea on how fast this process is, it seems that, in order to index the 5 million terabytes of data, the search engine would need 300 years. And this would be valid only if nobody posted new content on the Internet...
It would be interesting to find out how much are the other search engines indexing compared to Google, so we can have a complete image of what is currently accessible.'
So maybe one day, the internet will have it's own archaeological team?
'It's a well-known fact that the search engines are indexing only a small part of the entire Internet content.
But what is the Internet's exact size, especially since the 2005 boom has added 17 million new sites?
In his speech at the annual conference
of the National Advertisers Association, Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, said that, from the data recorded by the search engine, it seems that, at this specific moment, the Internet is made up of 5 million terabytes.
Even Google, which is considered currently the best search engine ever, has succeeded to index only 170 terabytes up until now, Schmidt said.
Google has been indexing information for 7 years, and if you want to have an idea on how fast this process is, it seems that, in order to index the 5 million terabytes of data, the search engine would need 300 years. And this would be valid only if nobody posted new content on the Internet...
It would be interesting to find out how much are the other search engines indexing compared to Google, so we can have a complete image of what is currently accessible.'
So maybe one day, the internet will have it's own archaeological team?
MK4 Slowride said:
Will the new Millenium be an age that's studied in depth in the future?
We have:
The internets
Terrorism
War
Plague (possibly)
Recession
Technology
Medicine & medical science (cloning etc)
...personally I think the internet will be the bigger issue with regards to study unless the pig-flu or something else (Nukes?) bigger takes the headlines.
All of the above could be the Internet. Internet terrorism creating wars, plague read Porn We have:
The internets
Terrorism
War
Plague (possibly)
Recession
Technology
Medicine & medical science (cloning etc)
...personally I think the internet will be the bigger issue with regards to study unless the pig-flu or something else (Nukes?) bigger takes the headlines.
Recession the dotcom bubble bursting, technology and so on... Personally I think Governments will pass laws to allow them to read everything we type and view on the internet and people will simply stop as they don't want big brother watching their every move.
Don't forget though the internet is only new and still unregulated to an extent. I think theres going to be a few internet revolutions to come yet with regards to security at least.
I posted a similar question on another internet site similar to this about your kids or great, great (recurring) grandkids if they discover your avatar or want to find out about you in a few hundred years & go trapsing through your posting archive. What better to find out about history than reading the popular forums of the time. Even going back 100 years now there is a wealth of information but at the same time it's difficult to get.
Will V8mate's grandkids revive a 100 year old thread on PH?
I posted a similar question on another internet site similar to this about your kids or great, great (recurring) grandkids if they discover your avatar or want to find out about you in a few hundred years & go trapsing through your posting archive. What better to find out about history than reading the popular forums of the time. Even going back 100 years now there is a wealth of information but at the same time it's difficult to get.
Will V8mate's grandkids revive a 100 year old thread on PH?
Nobody You Know said:
What the f
k is the internet?
It's a carnivore that lives in Scotland. It's got razor sharp teeth and ambushes it's pray (including people) from tree tops. When cooked & served the Scottish call it Haggis & it's a delicacy up there.k is the internet?HTH
The above was said to a couple of Yanks on Xbox live who were asking what Haggis is & so the bulls
t flowed nicely, this being the final result. Got them hook, line & sinker!
MK4 Slowride said:
Nobody You Know said:
What the fk is the internet?
It's a carnivore that lives in Scotland. It's got razor sharp teeth and ambushes it's pray (including people) from tree tops. When cooked & served the Scottish call it Haggis & it's a delicacy up there.k is the internet?HTH
The above was said to a couple of Yanks on Xbox live who were asking what Haggis is & so the bulls
t flowed nicely, this being the final result. Got them hook, line & sinker!MK4 Slowride said:
Nobody You Know said:
What the fk is the internet?
It's a carnivore that lives in Scotland. It's got razor sharp teeth and ambushes it's pray (including people) from tree tops. When cooked & served the Scottish call it Haggis & it's a delicacy up there.k is the internet?HTH
The above was said to a couple of Yanks on Xbox live who were asking what Haggis is & so the bulls
t flowed nicely, this being the final result. Got them hook, line & sinker!Future historians will question the origin of Goodyism and it's rise to become the dominant religious belief system of the late 21st and early 22nd centuries.
This will be due, obviously, to the legacy of the Jadeian purges that will lead to the aberration that will be referred to in the post-darkness as 'The Minging' and it's horrific effects.
With the eventual destruction of the OK! Ministry of information those few brave souls who begin to question the accepted photostory of history will be initially reviled but ultimately vindicated when the English language replaces engtxt as the national tongue and a new age dawns.
This will be due, obviously, to the legacy of the Jadeian purges that will lead to the aberration that will be referred to in the post-darkness as 'The Minging' and it's horrific effects.
With the eventual destruction of the OK! Ministry of information those few brave souls who begin to question the accepted photostory of history will be initially reviled but ultimately vindicated when the English language replaces engtxt as the national tongue and a new age dawns.
MK4 Slowride said:
We have:
The internets
Terrorism
War
Plague (possibly)
Recession
Technology
Medicine & medical science (cloning etc)
...personally I think the internet will be the bigger issue with regards to study unless the pig-flu or something else (Nukes?) bigger takes the headlines.
Nothing of note has happened yet, with the possible exception of increased Muslim/Western tension and the beginning of the West's socialist slide to self-destruction as our enemies help themselves. The internets
Terrorism
War
Plague (possibly)
Recession
Technology
Medicine & medical science (cloning etc)
...personally I think the internet will be the bigger issue with regards to study unless the pig-flu or something else (Nukes?) bigger takes the headlines.
xrv said:
You know I'm begining to think that the newspapers may be blowing there things out of proportion in order to increase sales.
Or am I just being paranoid again?
If you are a fan of newswipe on BBC4 then you maybe right... Or am I just being paranoid again?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00jzjs6/News...
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