# Do you find you're reaching the end of the internet faster and faster?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-youre-reaching-the-end-of-the-internet-faster-and-faster/570354
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [February 6, 2011, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-youre-reaching-the-end-of-the-internet-faster-and-faster/570354 "2011-02-06T02:38:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2011, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-youre-reaching-the-end-of-the-internet-faster-and-faster/570354/1 "2011-02-06T02:38:25Z")
Perhaps I need to find some new sites, but I’m finding that I’ve hit all the sites, forums, Facebook, etc, earlier and earlier in the evenings.
How bout you?
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### Author:  [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2011, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-youre-reaching-the-end-of-the-internet-faster-and-faster/570354/2 "2011-02-06T02:44:13Z")
Yeah, the same ten or so sites every evening. The internet is more and more like TV.
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### Author:  [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2011, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-youre-reaching-the-end-of-the-internet-faster-and-faster/570354/3 "2011-02-06T02:48:24Z")
What channel IS the SDMB?
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### Author:  [@Trubie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trubie)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2011, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-youre-reaching-the-end-of-the-internet-faster-and-faster/570354/4 "2011-02-06T02:51:44Z")
Nope. I have my classics and my routine sites, but I love finding new sites. Preferable home made gems. In the tone of “Will you be my girlfriend?”. Such fail it’s win.
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### Author:  [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2011, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-youre-reaching-the-end-of-the-internet-faster-and-faster/570354/5 "2011-02-06T03:29:00Z")
StumbleUpon will keep you going for a long time if you hit a plateau. I have been surfing the web basically since 1994 and haven’t gotten completely stuck for almost 18 years. Some of the shine has worn off since the early days but the content sucked back then. We were just easily impressed. It takes more and more to keep us happy. The web alone plus subcomponents of it like Amazon, Wikipedia, Google, Youtube, and Facebook are revolutionary but we oooh and ahhh for a couple of months and then wonder why nobody has done anything good for us lately. Or ancestors were thrilled when someone came up with a slightly better way to start fire that only took 10 - 20 generations to perfect but we are much more demanding than that.
Honestly, you would think that people these days would be happy with exponential progress that is made every year but it doesn’t work that way. It is a weird quirk of human psychology to come to expect more and more which becomes difficult if not impossible at some point. I just tried to show my young daughters video of a Saturn V rocket launch, the space shuttle Challenger disaster, am early Beatles convert, and a Blue Man group show on a large TV with surround sound just tonight. I told them it was live and they needed to check it out. They weren’t that impressed and wanted to know what else we could watch after each one.
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### Author:  [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2011, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-youre-reaching-the-end-of-the-internet-faster-and-faster/570354/6 "2011-02-06T04:04:07Z")
Sweet Jesus **Shag** You’ve SAVED me!
Whoda thunk there was a website on COIN stacking?
([Coin Stacking](http://www.fincher.org/Misc/Pennies/World6.shtml))
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2011, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-youre-reaching-the-end-of-the-internet-faster-and-faster/570354/7 "2011-02-06T04:20:44Z")
I thought this thread would be about reaching the [actual end of the internet](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion#Allocation_of_final_IPv4_space) allocation of IP4 numbers.
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### Author:  [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2011, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-youre-reaching-the-end-of-the-internet-faster-and-faster/570354/8 "2011-02-06T04:21:41Z")
When you reach the [end](http://www.zombo.com), you’ll know.
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### Author:  [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2011, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-youre-reaching-the-end-of-the-internet-faster-and-faster/570354/9 "2011-02-06T04:24:53Z")
I reached the end of the Internet a long time ago. And I drove right off the edge.
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### Author:  [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2011, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-youre-reaching-the-end-of-the-internet-faster-and-faster/570354/10 "2011-02-06T07:16:17Z")
If you get a tumblr account and follow people you can add another thing to your daily routine.
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### Author:  [@kapri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kapri)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2011, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-youre-reaching-the-end-of-the-internet-faster-and-faster/570354/11 "2011-02-06T15:15:18Z")
Yes. I actually have a list on my coffee table headed “Things to do instead of going online,” because I find the Internet more boring all the time–the same websites have the same stories, and I’m not much interested in the Facebook antics of my friends. I have the same problem with television. Lately “down time” has been **really** down.
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### Author:  [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2011, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-youre-reaching-the-end-of-the-internet-faster-and-faster/570354/12 "2011-02-06T19:03:32Z")
I’m a fast reader. Usually, I follow 5-10 websites for the articles, and read all the new content within 30-60 minutes. So far, there’s only been 1 site that produces new content faster than I can read it: Yahoo Answers. But, I don’t go there anymore
My usual cycle:
IMDB news/articles/recommended links on the bottom
Yahoo news, sports, blogs, rumors, experts
Game boards of games I’m currently playing
Then I come here, because I make my own content which eats up some time.
Then I go watch tv or play games.
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### Author:  [@phantom\_lamb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phantom_lamb)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2011, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-youre-reaching-the-end-of-the-internet-faster-and-faster/570354/13 "2011-02-07T10:14:09Z")
Yeah, I’m getting increasingly bored with the internet. I have about a dozen websites bookmarked and I sometimes find myself refreshing them every few hours or so to find nothing has changed and then feel frustrated (then again, what would you expect, right?).
I can’t wait for Spring so I can get into some outdoor hobbies and just other stuff in general.
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### Author:  [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2011, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-youre-reaching-the-end-of-the-internet-faster-and-faster/570354/14 "2011-02-07T14:28:34Z")
Yeah, I find myself increasingly bored with the Internet. My friends need to post more smarter stuff on Facebook. Hell, I don’t even play Frontierville anymore.