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Kid Presentable
03-25-2011, 07:03 AM
Serious question.
Junker
03-25-2011, 07:08 AM
Sorry. Never heard of.
Kid Presentable
03-25-2011, 07:10 AM
Nah like where do they keep it?
Junker
03-25-2011, 07:22 AM
I think the government hides it as they hide information about UFO's and unicorns.
Kid Presentable
03-25-2011, 07:26 AM
I don't think you're being serious.

If we lost our major communication media during a zombie apocalypse, would we lose the internet?

And if we did lose the internet, and then the outbreak/apocalypse/whatever were resolved, where would they go to plug the internet back in?
monkey
03-25-2011, 07:27 AM
Switzerland or Sweden? I was told once that everything important or cool is either kept under the mountains in Switzerland or in Sweden. No one would look there.
Kid Presentable
03-25-2011, 07:28 AM
Are you sure, Pauli? Source?
monkey
03-25-2011, 07:29 AM
ask tpk. he told me he had the internet in his pocket.:o
Kid Presentable
03-25-2011, 07:40 AM
You better not be using that connection :|
Junker
03-25-2011, 08:17 AM
Well, you asked where would they plug the internet back in case of an apocalypse. Monkey said tpk has it in his pocket. I wonder if it's in his back pocket. If so, I also wonder where it's plugged... :(
Kid Presentable
03-25-2011, 08:19 AM
nah we set that joke up months ago.
Junker
03-25-2011, 09:05 AM
Ohh I see.

Fine then. (y):)
Kid Presentable
03-25-2011, 09:14 AM
Nah we didn't I was lying. How are your parents?
MC Moot
03-25-2011, 09:46 AM
Al Gores jock...
Junker
03-25-2011, 09:52 AM
Nah we didn't I was lying. How are your parents?

You little rascal. :D

Well, thanks for asking. But they're dead. :(
Kid Presentable
03-25-2011, 07:41 PM
Damn (n) Sorry yo
silence7
03-25-2011, 08:32 PM
I've been waiting for someone to ask this.....

It's in a little black box, inside of Big Ben.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYbyj9I1u6U
Bob
03-25-2011, 08:44 PM
serious answer? i don't know
Kid Presentable
03-25-2011, 08:53 PM
It's weird, right?
HEIRESS
03-25-2011, 09:31 PM
This is making my face hurt.
Kid Presentable
03-25-2011, 09:42 PM
Is that bad?
HEIRESS
03-25-2011, 10:17 PM
Is sorta like thinking about who your current significant other dated before you. I don't like thinking about where my internet comes from, just that it's here and it's mine. FOREVER.
Adam
03-25-2011, 11:28 PM
Is this a serious question?

If so, it's everywhere. It's like saying where are the roads or where do they start? The same way we are connected road to road, we are connected computer to computer. If you was to destroy all the roads until there was only one left you'd be left with a road. If you was to disconnect every device until there was only one left, they'd be no internet. That analogy didn't write out as well as I thought it would.

The web is on the internet btw. The internet is not the web.

If not a serious question. I don't get it :confused: :o
Bob
03-25-2011, 11:29 PM
It's weird, right?

it's kind of like trying to figure out where your money goes when you bank it or spend it electronically. maybe it goes to the internet. maybe they're one and the same.
Adam
03-25-2011, 11:42 PM
The bits of money are owed by the bank. It's a loan from gold reserves. So instead of using precious bits of metal to pay for services, we trust banks (because they are too big to fail) to keep tabs on the exchange of goods and services by using slips of paper they print for the small part of gold reserves you own from your account. The higher the number, the more slips of paper they'll let you have.

Same idea if you just used your debit/credit card. Instead of bits of paper, the number decreases or increases to the amount of bits of paper you'd be allowed but it cuts out all that fiddly touching of bits of paper.
Echewta
03-26-2011, 01:11 AM
You have to believe we are magic nothing can stand in our way.
You have to believe we are magic don't let your aim ever stray.
Kid Presentable
03-26-2011, 04:24 AM
If every road leads to Rome, to where do all computers lead?
Guy Incognito
03-26-2011, 06:59 AM
If every road leads to Rome, to where do all computers lead?

some are wireless now, dont need leads
Bob
03-26-2011, 09:07 AM
The bits of money are owed by the bank. It's a loan from gold reserves. So instead of using precious bits of metal to pay for services, we trust banks (because they are too big to fail) to keep tabs on the exchange of goods and services by using slips of paper they print for the small part of gold reserves you own from your account. The higher the number, the more slips of paper they'll let you have.

Same idea if you just used your debit/credit card. Instead of bits of paper, the number decreases or increases to the amount of bits of paper you'd be allowed but it cuts out all that fiddly touching of bits of paper.

i don't believe the USA uses the gold standard anymore though, does the UK?

anyway that isn't what i meant exactly, i just mean electronic banking in general - whatever money with proper currency is, at least you're holding a thing in your hand, but when you're just shifting fake numbers to other fake numbers, what's really happening?

internet, that's what
Teh
03-26-2011, 09:28 AM
Directions to the internet. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/violinha/1277231957/lightbox/)

But seriously, everywhere is as close as you'll get. click click boom! (http://www.telegeography.com/product-info/map_traffic/images/global-traffic-map-large.png)
Kid Presentable
03-26-2011, 10:31 AM
click click boom! (http://www.telegeography.com/product-info/map_traffic/images/global-traffic-map-large.png)

This looks like teenage Skynet's first day of high school.