Net traffic explodes for NASA'S comet collision
I hope many of you saw this near- real-time. It was awsome. Roy Mark writes for internetnews.com: [snip] Deep Impact's spectacular collision with the comet Tempel 1 resulted in an explosion of record traffic to the NASA Web site to see how it looked. The hyper-speed demise of the ship's probe, as it smashed into a comet half the size of Manhattan, generated approximately 80 million page views. "It's off the scale," Brian Dunbar, NASA's Internet Services Manager, told internetnews.com, noting the previous traffic record was 30 million page views for the Mars landing in 2004. "Hands down, it was a record day." [snip] http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3517721 Pretty cool stuff. :-) - ferg ps. We should also be aware of how far AOL has come, too, since the 1996 Victoria's Secret fashion show. From every report, they pulled off streaming 7 simulateous video feeds of the Live 8 concerts this past weekend without any substantial problems whatsoever. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050705/ap_en_bu/internet_video_performs Time they are a'changin'. -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 22:54:59 GMT "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net> wrote:
I hope many of you saw this near- real-time. It was awsome.
It was indeed. I like to use Alexa to look at web site rankings, so here is a comparison of the recent encounter and the Mars Rover landings http://www.americafree.tv/rankings/nasa.html It does indeed seem to have been more popular. Regards Marshall
Roy Mark writes for internetnews.com:
[snip]
Deep Impact's spectacular collision with the comet Tempel 1 resulted in an explosion of record traffic to the NASA Web site to see how it looked. The hyper-speed demise of the ship's probe, as it smashed into a comet half the size of Manhattan, generated approximately 80 million page views.
"It's off the scale," Brian Dunbar, NASA's Internet Services Manager, told internetnews.com, noting the previous traffic record was 30 million page views for the Mars landing in 2004. "Hands down, it was a record day."
[snip]
http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3517721
Pretty cool stuff. :-)
- ferg
ps. We should also be aware of how far AOL has come, too, since the 1996 Victoria's Secret fashion show. From every report, they pulled off streaming 7 simulateous video feeds of the Live 8 concerts this past weekend without any substantial problems whatsoever.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050705/ap_en_bu/internet_video_performs
Time they are a'changin'.
-- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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