Interesting.
That's pretty damn cool, and excellent for a first try.
You put a lot of time and effort into this and it shows.
If you cut out the time it took to come up with the list of 150 names, I think I spent something like… two hours on this. It's a pretty simple and unoriginal idea, really. Do a Google search for "internet on a floppy disk" and you'll see what I mean.
Still, thanks a bunch.
Just noticed the Easter Egg with disc 13. Wonder how many more there are?
I love how the disks have seemingly infinite storage space…
…but the porn *still* takes up *twelve* of the things.
I wonder what kind of organizational system could divide all the porn on the internet into twelve parts?
… By fetish/kink appeal, maybe?
Which leaves one to wonder, is it all the pornography on the internet, or all the publicly-registered and legal pornography on the internet? If it's the former, gonna guess the researcher got pretty squicked by one or more of those disks.
Hm. But that brings up an interesting non-porn-related matter. Would these also contain the "hidden" internet sites accessible by various methods? Basically the black market internet that people discussed retreating to during the course of SOPA?
I would interpret it thus: It is all the information accessible by enumerating:
for every ip address
for every port that responds to http
for every http endpoint (url/method) that doesn't 404
for every combination of auth/cookies/etc
store the info
That would pick up things with no in-links (unlike, say, a web spider), and basically anything accessible on the public internet. It wouldn't pick up:
- Stuff hidden behind a vpn
- Stuff not exposed via http (eg. ftp)
- Anything on the TOR network (which is, I think, what Aridorn was referring to)
I like this, but is that really as detailed containment procedures as it needs?
Probably because there can't, physically speaking, be that much data present on a 3.5" floppy.
Piffy is an SCP Foundation Moderator, Lv. 9001 Squishy Wizard, and Knight of the Red Pen.