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    Google let's you inside it's data centers via Street View

    New Google Street View Feature Lets You See “Where The Internet Lives”

    Have you ever been curious to see where the Internet and all of your important data lives? For the first time, Google is opening their many locked doors and allowing people to see just how much work goes into to keeping their business up and running. What makes the tour interesting is that it isn’t done through video or guided tour, but actually done through Google’s Street View.

    Once you locate one of Google’s many data centers, you can take a virtual walk through and get an inside look. A very neat and nifty feature indeed.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avP5d16wEp0


    Not sure if this interests anyone else, but seeing the sheer massive size of these data centers sends my inner geek into a frenzy.

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    I'd love to know how many hard drives they have!
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
    -Carl Sagan

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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    I'd love to know how many hard drives they have!
    I was wondering the same thing! The sheer mass of computing power in just that one data center makes me drool.

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    That's definitely awesome! I want to know more though!
    I'd like to know what OS they use on those data centers.
    It's Linux of some flavor, but I've heard it's a highly customized version. I'd like to get my hands on a copy of it.

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    There are probably a few uber-nerds out there with very sticky pants right now.
    Last edited by Legion2213; 18-Oct-2012 at 06:19 PM. Reason: .
    Oblivion gallops closer, favoring the spur, sparing the rein - I think we will be gone soon

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    Quote Originally Posted by Legion2213 View Post
    There are probably a few uber-nerds out there with very sticky pants right now.

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    So that's what the internet looks like. Very cool indeed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MinionZombie View Post
    So that's what the internet looks like. Very cool indeed.
    Well, actually...


    Last edited by Legion2213; 19-Oct-2012 at 02:45 PM. Reason: .
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    Quote Originally Posted by Legion2213 View Post
    Well, actually...


    *high five*

    I was thinking of that very episode when watching the Google video.

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