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Old 04-15-2008, 01:38 AM
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Originally Posted by giroldo View Post
In wired magazine or something similar, i recal reading about a modem and/or server (i forget) that was capable of downloading every single netflix movie (approximately 900,000) in thirty seconds and the entire internet, yes, the internet, in approximately two minutes.

Im not exactly sure where i heard this but what i said was what i could remember.
It's like the internet 2.0 - I believe they refer to it now as "The Grid" it is the massive network they set up to analyze the data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN (the same lab that created the original Internet).

Heres the article from Wired - http://www.wired.com/science/discove.../2001/03/42230
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