Is the internet infinite?

[xEDIT409]

Or is it not?

I imagine it to be infinite b/c isn't something new always being added or something new updated?

 

[conjur]

There's a definite end

 

[konichiwa]

 

[KLin]

nope. A couple of proper placed nuke's can disable it 😉

 

[LSUfan]

Originally posted by: conjur
There's a definite end

hahaha

 

[XZeroII]

If it's anything like my loops, it is.

 

[XZeroII]

The end of the internet would be whoever has IP 255.255.255.255

 

[FoBoT]

it is larger than my ass

 

['BARtMAN']

Originally posted by: XZeroII
The end of the internet would be whoever has IP 255.255.255.255

That's a broadcast address, I think you mean 254.254.254.254

 

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
it is larger than my ass

With or without your head up it?

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: Sifl

Originally posted by: FoBoT
it is larger than my ass

With or without your head up it?

either way, the internut is quite large

 

[Wuffsunie]

Originally posted by: 'BARtMAN'

Originally posted by: XZeroII
The end of the internet would be whoever has IP 255.255.255.255

That's a broadcast address, I think you mean 254.254.254.254

And that's just working with the current IPv4. Wait till IPv6 (or whatever might replace it) is implemented in the near future; it'll still be limited, but just so damned huge no one will care.

 

[cheesewhiz]

People always misuse infinite 🙂 It isn't infinite, unless you consider scripts that generate random crap "content."

I think the proper terminology is finite but unbounded.

 

[EyeMWing]

It is finite at any given moment, infinite if extrapolated into the infinite future (Assuming no end of the world)

 

[Ikonomi]

Originally posted by: conjur
There's a definite end

You know, I thought the official "end of the internet" page was served from somewhere in Canada or something... Now I have to find this, if it's still around.

Heh, there are a billion of these things, now! I want to find the one I'm thinking of, though.

Edit: AH HA!!!1 I don't think it's the real thing, but it's close enough to what I was thinking of.

 

[MAME]

it's 100% finite

(985038509348543 + 1) < infinity

 

[Joker81]

.9999999...... != internet.

 

[T2T III]

Yes, the Internet is infinite. However, the inventor, Al Gore, is not.

 

[Eli]

No.

Now, I'm not exactly sure in what context you mean this, but the way I take it.. it terminates at us, the end users.

For some reason, I automatically think of the actual physical links, fiber/wires..