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Worlds Highest Website

worlds-highest-website.com — Welcome to the World ’s Highest Website! Currently, it’s 18.939 kilometers high (that’s about 11.769 miles), and an enormous pleasure to scroll. Enjoy. For fine print and technical details, either scroll down by yourself or take the elevator, which offers light speed hypertext transportation for free.

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  • upinsmoke570, on 10/12/2007, -5/+179time to print that site out and break out the tape measure
  • FunkyWitDaSysTm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29because it just had to be done. i wonder exactly what it is that makes this the upper limit. anyone know?
    • DarkLance, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9From TFA:
      "For the records – Gecko-based browsers like Firefox show an interesting behavior when you want to make the site any higher (than precisely 18.939583 kilometers, that is), namely by “shrinking” or “collapsing” its main container"
  • simnor, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14Fantastic, i love it, i dont know about climbing it but you never know one day, i do want to achieve something with my life, and its much better than climbing everest for real
  • ccaazz, on 10/12/2007, -69/+249Very funny, definately worthy of a digg! and btw: DIGG ME DOWN! - i want to set a new most dugg down record!
    • Ystig, on 10/12/2007, -41/+69I know people usually digg up when someone says "digg down", but it seems to me the more sensible thing to do if you want to be contrarian would be to digg such that the original post ends up at or near +1 in the end. When someone asks to be dugg, and to be dugg down, the furthest thing you can do from that isn't to digg them down; it's to digg them nowhere at all. If it's greater than +1, digg down. If it's lower than +1, digg up.
    • carapi, on 10/12/2007, -75/+67But that is Digg for you. It is a group of people who THINK they are being cool and clever by doing the opposite of what people say.

      Kind of sad really.

      Digg me up Digg!
    • mcnugget, on 10/12/2007, -17/+82That won't work, you've got to say PS3 rules, apple sucks or I wish Bush had another term.
    • Nicodascorpio, on 10/12/2007, -39/+24PS3 sucks Apple's bush for another term!!!
    • stevesearer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13i doubt you'll beat this one :)

      http://digg.com/tech_news/Top_8ish_Most_Buried_Comments_in_Digg_History#c3695640
    • CBTF, on 10/12/2007, -11/+32nipples.
  • ckr4282, on 10/12/2007, -22/+10Haha, when I read the title, I thought it meant it was high as in drugs.
  • quamsta, on 10/12/2007, -16/+5I hope the Digg terrorists won't bring this server down (literally).
  • Arkitan, on 10/12/2007, -15/+11Very clever, how long before we see the worlds widest website?
    • controlguy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18On a similar note, what about the world's lowest? Does that even make sense?
    • seventoes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16worlds widest website is already out there somewhere..
    • kafitz22, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6There was that one that was on a digg a while back at deepskyfrontier.com but that seems to be gone now.
    • CaseyThr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Maybe it's that online atom thing, where it's to scale...it's huge!
    • mercurysquad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Duh. World Wide Web.
  • saikhan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19I foresee a mouse scroll race of some sort.
  • LarianLeQuella, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Very silly (in a fun sort of way). Kudos.
  • r©ain, on 10/12/2007, -6/+22Also the worlds most boring website.
    I mean WTF? Scrolling isn't that fun.

    Or maybe it is...
  • nthdsnn, on 10/12/2007, -16/+5In other news, Worlds Highest Website record broken. New record is surprisingly double that of the previous record. (Copy and Paste?)
    • Hashiro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Known, yet interesting issues:

      * For the records – Gecko-based browsers like Firefox show an interesting behavior when you want to make the site any higher (than precisely 18.939583 kilometers, that is), namely by “shrinking” or “collapsing” its main container;
      * Internet Explorer doesn’t accept internal references behind the real action, and it’s unclear if the container height really is 18.939 kilometers (though it’s damn high nonetheless).
    • pimterry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I think (correct me if i'm wrong) the point is you just CAN'T make a website higher than this, as the limitations in CSS stop it.
      In fact if you scroll to the bottom (joy) it says:
      "If you can come up with fixes or an even higher element, whose formatting is broadly supported, email info at worlds-highest-website.com. Most likely, there’s some reward."

      Which means it's the tallest they can make it at least. Or something.

      Do the lines at the bottom look a bit iffy to anyone else? (Camino on OS X)

      PimTerry

      EDIT: Yeah, what the post above says too.
    • Hashiro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@pimterry
      "Do the lines at the bottom look a bit iffy to anyone else?"

      Haha! Yeah... Line's all f****d up!
  • spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8What a letdown! When I did a print preview it cut out the middle and fit it all on one page! I wanted to print this thing!
  • nipuL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+54Heh, I was expecting to see an article about some nepalese hackers who installed a solar powered webserver on the top of everest.
  • hernam19, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Pretty interesting site, must say very unique.


    On my negavtive side, kind of proves the site owners surplus of free time...
  • Jsmakr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13My carpal tunnel kicked in about 0.034 kilometers down and I gave up.
  • ThisIsBob, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0End
  • xGrill, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3here goes

    for($int=0;$i (less than) number;$i++) echo "----n---n----"
  • xeno439, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15I guess I will make the world's deepest website with 1000 levels of div tags inside div tags.
  • Adorism, on 10/12/2007, -17/+10Um, hey everyone, did you notice this is stupid?
    • mcrosby, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I don't agree - its an experiment in to CSS. This is the upper limit apparently, so there definitely is a point to this.
  • Aque0us, on 10/16/2007, -4/+10I'm so printing this at work tomorrow.
  • nemontemi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22World's "highest" website? For some reason I thought this site was like, hosted on a satellite or high-altitude weather balloon... World's Tallest Website, maybe?
    • nethenm, on 04/01/2008, -1/+16World's longest website would be more accurate.
    • mcrosby, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Yeah, same here nemonermi! :-) I wonder where the worlds highest web server actually is? I wonder if there is a web server on the international space station?
    • Autoclave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"I wonder where the worlds highest web server actually is?"

      That would be the one holding http://www.timecube.com
  • IMustBeEmo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26How many pounds of weed did they put in the HTML?
  • darrk, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1would be even better if there was real content on there
    something to read maybe the whole scrolling line , anyone can do
  • richbradshaw, on 10/12/2007, -2/+64Day 1:

    I scrolled down the first few miles using my mouse wheel, but the wheel got worn out, so I got out another mouse and carried on, that one broke, then my finger seized up. Time to rest.

    Day 2:

    New mouse, and a new day. Sprayed the wheel with WD-40 this time. Feeling optimistic. Haven't visually moved down the scrollbar yet, hoping to break the 1 pixel mark today. Got through 3 more mice. Thinking of moving onto the down key.

    Day 3:

    Down key broken. Moved onto the down on the 2 key on my numpad. Fingers hurting. Down to my left hand little finger. All others bruised.

    Day 4:

    Skipping to Page Down. Broken 2 pixel boundary on scrollbar.

    Day 5:

    Page Down broken. Off to PC World to get new keyboard. May give up - holding on to last bit of motivation.

    Day 6:

    Sunday. Day of Rest. No progress today, fingers are all on splints.

    Day 7:

    Found I can just click and drag scrollbar! Woohoo! Almost instantly I have reached the end. Finally - another achievement to add to my wall of achievement.

    Day 8:

    The climb. My back button is right at the top of this sodding page...
    • sctechguy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3Dugg your comment up, just for sheer creativity, and entertainment. I applaud you, sir.
    • JanusAmon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I laughed for a good 5 minutes for that!
  • ronk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10It is done using CSS

    @media screen, projection {
    h1 { background-image: url(../../img/en/logo.jpg); }
    /* The styling of the highest “div” element of the world: */
    div#whws { font-size: 100cm; height: 18939em; line-height: 1.0; }
    /* Cool. */
    }

    @media print {
    div#whws:after { content: 'Skipped 18.939 kilometers: You’re dealing with paper.'; }
    }
    • somenice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1wouldn't adding margins, padding, and borders to the div make the page larger... Could care less to test but just a thought
    • dirtyharry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If you could print it'd come out to something like:

      (18.93900 kilometers) / (11 in) = 67 784.5383 pages.

      You want margins, you can figure that out yourself. I can't even imagine how many things of toner I'd go through.
  • UCFartstudntJON, on 10/12/2007, -17/+2Does it get gayer man? everyday dudes or weirdos : needless
  • Biznar, on 10/12/2007, -12/+3Whoever let this crap get hosted needs to be executed.
  • dgh1973, on 10/12/2007, -12/+2Lame.
  • majoogybobber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Try using the arrow-scroller that you get when you depress the scroll wheel on your mouse. If you tinker with how fast and how slow it moves, you'll experience the effect of the tick marks going backwards as you decelerate-- try it.

    There's a rate at which the ticks appear not to be moving, though of course you are still scrolling down. I forget the name of this phenomenon, but its the same idea as a strobe light hitting a fan.
  • rasmatias, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0
    Well, I guess now would be the right time to build the WORLD's WIDEST WEBSITE...
  • bioskope, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I can understand the how, but why?
  • Chmarr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Yep. lame.

    Really, this should have been caleld "world's TALLEST website". That should have made a lot more sense... kidna :)
    • gotamd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Yeah, I thought they were talking about the server being located at a high altitude or possibly all the admins being stoned more than any other web site's admins. Oh well.
  • imyayo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Interesting idea.
  • BenSerwa, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Hahaha, I saw "World's Highest Website" and it was at 420 diggs.
  • SaberWolf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Interesting idea, but I seem to remember about 3 months ago seeing an article on here about a website that was over 1.844 billion miles on each side.

    The website was http://www.deepskyfrontier.com/ but it is giving me 502 errors now. I remember that that page was so huge that it said that you would have to scroll for a long, long, long time before you could move the scrollbars 1 pixel.

    That was the tallest web page ever.
  • pickupthepenny, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Depends on resolution silly.
  • johnnyhay, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1haha, he printed the same image over and over. http://worlds-highest-website.com/img/tape.gif
    • jguerry, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1would you expect him to do otherwise?
    • johnnyhay, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1You can make the image out of css but that's not what he did. I think..
      It's really easy. All you do is use the div tag to make the css borders as an object. Then print the object in a for loop on screen.
  • darkened, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Buried for being incredibly lame.
  • jguerry, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0i think the digits of pi page might be taller.

    it looks as if they might have ripped off the color scheme of my css'd page.
    http://people.clemson.edu/~jguerry/hist323/index.html
    • TheKeithD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Uhh... so you're saying you're the creator of the white-on-black (with a splash of red) color scheme?
    • jguerry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0it's more of a light blue on black... red? where the hell'd you get that from?

      nah, it just reminded me of my first webpage i made with css design...
      i had to make up the links b/c i couldn't find any examples out there for linking on the same page...
  • zjbird, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I looked at the page source...they didn't actually type all that out, not even using copy/paste
  • johnnyhay, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1


    This is the highest ....*****, it's just high!!

    b=100;var pic='';
    for(var i=0;i
  • jguerry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0it's really cool to scroll using the center wheel button and moving the mouse down further deviations from the spot clicked.

    you can easily see the stroboscopic effect from aliasing in your display unit. :)
  • MrViklund, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1OK?
  • johnnyhay, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3<html>
    <body bgcolor= "black ">
    <font color= "white ">
    <center><b>This is the highest ....*****, it 's just high!!<b><br>
    <script type= 'text/javascript '>
    b=100;var pic= '<img src= "http://worlds-highest-website.com/img/tape.gif "><br> ';
    for(var i=0;i<=b;i++){document.write(pic);}document.write( ':pnI won ');
    </script>
    </center>
    </body>
    </html>
  • johnnyhay, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Just copy and paste that into notepad. Save as high.html then double click for it lauch in your browser.
    Change the value of b to scale the size. Change b to 25000 to win your own personal record.
  • hadak, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2i want that 5 minutes of my life back. kthx.
  • dstrube, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Oh man, this website is so high, it has no idea what's going on...
  • haveacigar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1If you look in the html is says
    "!-- Actually, the highest “div” element of the world: --"

    nice to have a few easter eggs
  • ulyssesyt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2whoop-dee-*****'-doo.
  • Wintrmte, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Man I'm sorry, what in the hell is the purpose of this site? Better yet, who in the hell actually dugg this story??
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