Internet Sites To Real Life Creations

[matak 2]

Just been thinking on a simple analogy to internet and life. If you would say that internet is space, and webistes are stars, than somehow i think it would lose meaning, couse most stars have some sort of planets or thingies that rotate around them.If internet would be space then probably web servers would be stars, and backbone computers would be galaxies.Backbone computers than again are just main bandwith carriers around the world, and they couldn't be compared to galaxies beacouse galaxies are more kind of a collections of stars, and then all web servers would then create galaxies, and planets that rotate around those servers are like planets rotating around sun.Hmm. I guess this idea of internet beeing a space isn't right, and maybe it could be compared to a one big apple tree, with backbones to be larger branches, servers to be smaller branches, and websites to be leaves of the tree. But what would than a fruit be!?I thought that this analogy to internet and real life would be much easier to accomplish, but it doesn't look that way. Could you make a metaphor to internet and something real.Looks like that internet isn't only cold beacouse it's powered by machines, which created us, and our way online life cold by their strict rules, which again we created, and which again should be much warmer couse we are then again sons of nature. Why didn't the man learned to be warm, and balanced like nature, but instead all of it's creations are so cold, and so short termed that when you look at it, it's really hard to compare it to real nature creations, even like stars, galaxies or trees.Maybe that's beacouse we aren't, and we'll never learn how to be warm blooded creatures, and instead of trying to go that way, each day by day we just become more and more distant from the way how we were supposed to be. Heh, if there is hope, for humans, to become one with nature, to think like nature thinks, and to act that way than it's really far far away. The fact that we are more and more becoming like machines, and obay laws that rarely make sense - except the obvius ones - soon i think that were going to even start talking in binary code, like No (0) Yes (1), and those who try to be different - lol, they will certanly be shown to others AS different.Humans vs Nature 0 : infinite

[Tetraca 0]

The internet is more like the Earth: It's got a large population, there's pollution, there's many different countries, protests to save the internet, different administration models that reflect despotism and democracy, companies and charlatans trying to sell stuff to you, and other various things that paralell to the world and whatnot. There's a reason why they sometimes call the internet a virtual world - it pretty much is one.If you want to go into your comparision of the Universe - the internet is the universe, servers are galaxies, sites are stars, and some are lucky enough to have orbiting objects around them which represent the users. ISPs are black holes trying to suck the content out of sites by forcing the websites to pay. White holes are those trying to stop the black holes. Comets are flamers and asteroids are trolls, trying to hurt planets(users) by smashing into them. Red giants are sites whose userbase is about to collapse, and white dwarfs are sites which lack any popularity anymore. Nebulas are new sites trying to pull their content together. Moons are sockpuppet accounts of users. Neutron stars are regularly populated sites that aren't completely popular. I could go on and on on this metaphor, but it's starting to get a tad tedious.

Edited July 7, 2007 by Tetraca (see edit history)

[matak 2]

The internet is more like the Earth: It's got a large population, there's pollution, there's many different countries, protests to save the internet, different administration models that reflect despotism and democracy, companies and charlatans trying to sell stuff to you, and other various things that paralell to the world and whatnot. There's a reason why they sometimes call the internet a virtual world - it pretty much is one.
If you want to go into your comparision of the Universe - the internet is the universe, servers are galaxies, sites are stars, and some are lucky enough to have orbiting objects around them which represent the users. ISPs are black holes trying to suck the content out of sites by forcing the websites to pay. White holes are those trying to stop the black holes. Comets are flamers and asteroids are trolls, trying to hurt planets(users) by smashing into them. Red giants are sites whose userbase is about to collapse, and white dwarfs are sites which lack any popularity anymore. Nebulas are new sites trying to pull their content together. Moons are sockpuppet accounts of users. Neutron stars are regularly populated sites that aren't completely popular. I could go on and on on this metaphor, but it's starting to get a tad tedious.

very nice explanation. haha.. you also feel mad, i just can't guess why.. lol