General Discussions

**ChrisTurn** · 10-11-2010, 12:17 PM

This is great, Ed !!

**lynxus** · 10-11-2010, 12:38 PM

Never heared of QQ

**edgray** · 10-11-2010, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by ChrisTurn

This is great, Ed !!

I wish I could claim credit for it, but it's the work of Randall Munroe @ xkcd.com

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Originally Posted by lynxus

Never heared of QQ

It's a Chinese site.

**dWhite** · 10-11-2010, 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by lynxus

Never heared of QQ

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=QQ

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Contrary to popular belief, QQ is not a set of crying eyes. It actually originated with the advent of Warcraft II. On battlenet, you could press ALT+Q+Q to immediately exit the match and program. Thus the term "QQ" was to tell people to just quit because they are unskilled. The term later developed and lost it's origin and is usually mistaken as crying eyes. In contemporary gamer culture, QQ has become the mainstream emoticon for crying eyes, though it is still often used in it's traditional sense.

**Giselle** · 10-11-2010, 02:09 PM

I knew the internet the last few years had almost become global, with the map, it pretty much does make it global, thanks for sharing Ed!

**Knight13** · 10-11-2010, 02:13 PM

Myspace should be bigger than that.

**edgray** · 10-11-2010, 02:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Knight13

Myspace should be bigger than that.

Not these days, it's a shrinking community!

Here's the previous map of the internet, circa 2006 I believe:

**dWhite** · 10-11-2010, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by edgray

Not these days, it's a shrinking community!

Here's the previous map of the internet, circa 2006 I believe:

See bottom of picture:

Spring 2007.

**edgray** · 10-11-2010, 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by dWhite

See bottom of picture:

Spring 2007.

thanks for the heads up.

**edgray** · 10-11-2010, 02:42 PM

by the way, if you click through to the site and download the full size version of this, it tells you how he came about those sizes.

**Darkness23** · 10-12-2010, 11:50 PM

Wow! What a map can I have one? I'm going on a journey and I will
travel using this map. I wonder which is the first place to visit :P
Myspace is bigger than facebook, maybe I should check out *Bay of
Angst*