http://adsoftheworld.com/media/prin...ders_the_internets_black_holes?size=_original
Thats pretty damn cool
Thats pretty damn cool
The Internets Black Holes
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Actually. Nothing to see here. Move along.
/whistle innocently.
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I noticed that also. What does the graphic actually show? I am presuming it is some from of graphics showing the connections between different types of servers, but which ones?
Angus Higgins
No mate. For a start there are no datacentres slap in the middle of the Atlantic ocean.....and the cables dont just abruptly stop dead on the borders of certain countries.
Its just an ad.
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Ahh.
I didn't look carefully enough it seems.
It would have been more interesting if the graphic was a proper representation of the Internet.
Angus Higgins
Unfortunately that would have the side effect of making Liverpool look useful...
Urgh....just came across this awful ad:
http://adsoftheworld.com/media/print/nrdc_trees?size=_original
How could they think "yeah....that looks good"?
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I find it incredible that Greenland has more internet connections than China - must be all those Warcraft eskimo gold farmers... 
well here's a map of undersea cables....
http://news.com.com/2300-1033_3-6035611-1.html
a few years old now but meh...
I noticed that also. What does the graphic actually show? I am presuming it is some from of graphics showing the connections between different types of servers, but which ones?
Angus Higgins
Nah its someone with a lot of time and going doo-lally on paint spar
I Love how there's a relatively large black spot in the north of England
And Mid-Wales seems to have the most
It's also factually inaccurate, it's meant to show which countries don't provide unrestricted access to the web, but there's great big lists of sites that almost every ISP in the western world blocks, and not all of them illegal. The list is just bigger for those countries, that's all.
It might be cool if it actually depicted anything real!
They've just covered the map with a random mess of lines and then blacked out certain areas. Result is a totally fabricated map which depicts very little but "looks good for dramatic effect". Whilst I don't have a problem with causes such as this and bringing the rights of free speech and freedom of expression to oppressed areas, using OTT and melodramatic depictions such as this does them no favours.
They've just covered the map with a random mess of lines and then blacked out certain areas. Result is a totally fabricated map which depicts very little but "looks good for dramatic effect". Whilst I don't have a problem with causes such as this and bringing the rights of free speech and freedom of expression to oppressed areas, using OTT and melodramatic depictions such as this does them no favours.