I Bet You Can't Find Marcus Island



Oh! You have.

The youngest has just tried to find out where the pictures actually are on a DVD which if you ask me is a very good question. You might apply it to finding out where the internet actually is. The "contents" of your computer spread out all over the disk in what would seem a completely illogical order. Even straight after a defrag, it is probably not easy to tie a list of files in explorer to areas on the disk. I wonder if there are utilities which show an actual physical representation of the files on disk - maybe having a link on the right-click menu of the file explorer. Expand this to the entire collection of data on the internet and see where that gets you. Of course all the stuff at the BBC website probably resides in only a few locations around the world but even then, redudancy and backup machines probably mean that something a click away on the page will not be anywhere close in physical location. So we have the logical map of all the stuff out there and the physical map of where the actual bits sit on disk. Is there an equivalent of the degree of fragmentation of the intenet? The people who wrote the web-crawler to answer the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon question must surely be half-way there.