# New \[XKCD\] Map of the Internet! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 6, 2010, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-xkcd-map-of-the-internet/556222 "2010-10-06T05:29:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-xkcd-map-of-the-internet/556222/61 "2010-10-07T01:50:24Z")
Love that Maru Gulf got it’s own spot on the Youtube continent. Oh, and Gondolin. ---
**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-xkcd-map-of-the-internet/556222/62 "2010-10-07T01:55:17Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > Can anyone explain what the stuff behind the “Great Firewall” is? I know China is feisty with the internet and all but I don’t get all the references on the map behind that line and I’m a little stumped why Happy Farm is straddling it. I don’t know much about the Chinese Internet, but the [Grass Mud Horse](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_Mud_Horse) is a homophone (sort of, I’m not sure what the Chinese tonal equivalent is) for something profane. For a while, it slipped past the automatic censors, and references to it were a commentary on Chinese Internet censorship. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-xkcd-map-of-the-internet/556222/63 "2010-10-07T02:48:29Z")
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**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-xkcd-map-of-the-internet/556222/64 "2010-10-07T02:57:36Z")
> [@GilaB](#): > > > [@Omniscient](#): > > > > Can anyone explain what the stuff behind the “Great Firewall” is? I know China is feisty with the internet and all but I don’t get all the references on the map behind that line and I’m a little stumped why Happy Farm is straddling it. > > I don’t know much about the Chinese Internet, but the [Grass Mud Horse](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_Mud_Horse) is a homophone (sort of, I’m not sure what the Chinese tonal equivalent is) for something profane. For a while, it slipped past the automatic censors, and references to it were a commentary on Chinese Internet censorship. Looks like the Wiki page you linked clears up quite a bit of it. Grass Mud Horse, Ma Le Ge Bi and the River Crabs all seem to stem from the same meme. [Baidu Baike](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu_Baike) and [Hudong](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudong) both are elucidated by Wiki as Wiki’s themselves with commenting functionality. [Jia Junpeng](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jia_Junpeng) also is somewhat clarified on Wiki but I’m not sure I really get it. Obviously it was a lot of traffic though. QQ is basically the Chinese AIM on steroids, and Happy Farm is the Chinese Farmville and attached to QQ. You learn something new every day! ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-xkcd-map-of-the-internet/556222/65 "2010-10-07T03:25:41Z")
> [@Iggins](#): > > I laughed that /b/ made up the balls of 4chan island. > [@Shalmanese](#): > > 4chan is shaped like a penis. - shooting an archipelago of jizz! ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-xkcd-map-of-the-internet/556222/66 "2010-10-07T03:53:53Z")
The man sacrificed _goats_ when researching these stats. Are we SURE he’s not a Doper? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-xkcd-map-of-the-internet/556222/67 "2010-10-07T04:57:37Z")
> [@suranyi](#): > > > [@astro](#): > > > > On [www.bigboards.com](http://www.bigboards.com) we rank # 422 in members and 60th in # of posts. > > And yet it’s the only online community in which I participate regularly. > > I am so unconnected. Clearly the map does not indicate “Amount of Time-That-You-Can’t-Afford-To-Waste that you waste anyway”. This place’d be huge… ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-xkcd-map-of-the-internet/556222/68 "2010-10-07T05:54:22Z")
Anyone remember NationStates? And the Sea of Cecil? It was near Farkistan. ---
**Author:** ![fuzzypickles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9d8465/32.png) [@fuzzypickles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fuzzypickles)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-xkcd-map-of-the-internet/556222/69 "2010-10-09T17:45:08Z")
Hmm…the tiny region of “Attractive Myspace Pages” apparently no longer exists. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-xkcd-map-of-the-internet/556222.md?page=3)