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On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 22:54:59 GMT "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] or [email protected] > ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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