Google Finally Lets Us See Where it Keeps the Internet

-Dragmire-

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tmande2nd said:
How many of those servers are filled with porn?
I mean think about it....how many terabytes of porn are out there in the world?

On second thought I dont want to know.....
I do! I'm also curious how the porn genres are ranked based on quantity of space they take up.

It may or may not make me sick but you know what they say, knowledge is power!
 

Jfswift

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Is that really a good idea to display information about it or tours? Does area 51 have important information? Probably. Does it have tours.. No.
 

Evil Smurf

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Quaxar said:
Looks nice, but where are all the cats?

All these boxes are cat homes, connected by tubes, right? That's a lot of kitten tubes.
<spoiler=Jfswift answered that question>
Jfswift said:
Is that really a good idea to display information about it or tours? Does area 51 have important information? Probably. Does it have tours.. No.
http://kitten.cat/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/D6ZHk.jpg
Do you know how much of a fit PETA would have if it were confirmed?
 

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OH MY GOD. TED STEVENS WAS RIGHT. THE INTERNET IS A SERIES OF TUBES!

(Taken from the source above, spoilered for size)

 

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i found their super secret stratigic pue plan. its plummiting lol. what they should have done was in one picture. have slenderman be in like a shaded door way or seen through a crack in the door.
 

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If this is the first time we've seen Google's storage center, I can only guess it's because they finally made a fake facility believable enough to hide the old/true network. The old network of course being built by using information-hallowed cloned cat brains for storage space.
 

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Guffe said:
Vanbael said:
All the pictures were shown in my networking class, and dayum. Hell, I didn't even know that they kept the internet in a former paper mill in Finland, but it was cool.
Finland? seriously?
It's not a terrible idea. Finland is a cold place. Cold place = cheaper cooling cost. Iceland has been trying to entice companies that need to maintain large server rooms to do the same over there.
Scarim Coral said:
I always picture their server room abit more colourful, well ok it is during daytime (I saw the photos) but not when the lights are off.
Is this colorful enough? [http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/#/all/9] Yeah, I know it's not the server room itself, but it's still in the same building.
 

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Product Placement said:
Scarim Coral said:
I always picture their server room abit more colourful, well ok it is during daytime (I saw the photos) but not when the lights are off.
Is this colorful enough? [http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/#/all/9] Yeah, I know it's not the server room itself, but it's still in the same building.
HEHE!!
This is a quote from under the picture:
Ne maalataan kirkkailla väreillä, osaltaan koska se on hauskaa,

Translation: We paint the pipes in different colours, because it's fun, xD

after that of course it said that it's also for practical use since different pipes do different things, but still :D
 

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I think I get it, they keep the ponies in the colourful tubes. That's how the internet has can fit so many of them while still keeping all the lolcats in the server boxes.
 

MASTACHIEFPWN

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David Bray said:
Please don't say this is going to lead to hacking. That would suck
Yeah, I think hacking google would be a pretty hard feat to accomplish- it may lead guys with military grade explosives to break in and physically destroy the internet as we know it...
 

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uncanny474 said:
OH MY GOD. TED STEVENS WAS RIGHT. THE INTERNET IS A SERIES OF TUBES!

(Taken from the source above, spoilered for size)

Crap...that looks like a game of Pipe Dream gone HORRIBLY WRONG!!!

*Mario is passed out nearby...crosseyed and foaming at the mouth*

Ah, fudgenuts...the sight of that put Mario in a catatonic state!

CAPTCHA: Football Squirrel

...and that Captcha actually came WITH a pic of a football squirrel...I think the Google servers got into the Captcha.
 

Gilhelmi

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Jfswift said:
Is that really a good idea to display information about it or tours? Does area 51 have important information? Probably. Does it have tours.. No.
Agreed, letting potetal hackers even look at the system could lead too problems.

Wire up a patsy with a hidden camera, go inside, find out what systems they are running (just enough info too bluff your way past someone on a phone call) then hack the internet.

There is a reason why governments for thousands of years have not told trade secrets to the people. While 90% can be trusted, 10% will f*** you up 3.14159 ways too next Tuesday.
 

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huh...that one's just west of here in the mountains lol

pretty cool, though I'm thinking they should have more than just one security robot patrolling the aisles :p
 

Hiroshi Mishima

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What, they're keeping them all in one place, where the moment a disaster happens, we're all fucked? That's GREAT thinking! Just like how GameFAQs, Reddit, Minecraft and other shit were all hosted on Amazon's servers.. which went down, and took out a of the internet with it.

I mean, this whole thing is impressive, but gods, putting it all in one basket is pretty ludicrous.