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- 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!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+179time to print that site out and break out the tape measure
- valkyries, on 10/12/2007, -4/+144thank-god for school printers *crtl-p* *printer across the room blows up*
- scootinger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+113I went to print preview and I found this message in place of the "18.939 kilometers":
"Skipped 18.939 kilometers: You're dealing with paper." - drafhk, on 10/12/2007, -28/+96You'd better not. The tree-hugger hippies here on Digg will have your balls for breakfast.
- 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.
- 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... - rolfeman02, on 10/12/2007, -0/+62I was expecting a website on Mt. Everest.
- 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.
- katanna, on 10/12/2007, -2/+51Dugg for the "#hades" address when you "take the elevator down."
Matthew - davidod87, on 10/12/2007, -12/+57Not as long as looooongcat
http://longc.at/longcat.html - 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.
- 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?
- IMustBeEmo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26How many pounds of weed did they put in the HTML?
- idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -9/+33@davidod87
According to my scrollbar, you is wrong.
http://home.comcast.net/~antswin/scrollbar1.png
http://home.comcast.net/~antswin/scrollbar2.png - 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?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -11/+32nipples.
- saikhan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19I foresee a mouse scroll race of some sort.
- davidod87, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Ah yes, guys, but this different version of Longcat is theoretically infinite (if you keep waiting forever) since, it just keeps growing and growing:
http://lol.bz/js/longcat/ - seventoes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16worlds widest website is already out there somewhere..
- 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... - 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.
- nethenm, on 04/01/2008, -1/+16World's longest website would be more accurate.
- controlguy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18On a similar note, what about the world's lowest? Does that even make sense?
- Jsmakr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13My carpal tunnel kicked in about 0.034 kilometers down and I gave up.
- 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 - 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.'; }
} - IMustBeEmo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Here is a screenshot of print preview in Opera:
http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/4103/highestwebsiteeveryw5.png
Boring! - 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). - 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.
- piesforyou, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13@davidod87
Are you serious? There's no comparison! - 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
- 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!
- dwoloz, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12I was expecting http://hightimes.com
- 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" - 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. - 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. - 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?
- Aque0us, on 10/16/2007, -4/+10I'm so printing this at work tomorrow.
- 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.
- mercurysquad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Duh. World Wide Web.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Why not?
- BenSerwa, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Hahaha, I saw "World's Highest Website" and it was at 420 diggs.
- 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?
- dstrube, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Oh man, this website is so high, it has no idea what's going on...
- LarianLeQuella, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Very silly (in a fun sort of way). Kudos.
- djAnakin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I still don't get the point of all this. So they made a long webpage.... is that it?
I'm serious here, not being an ass. - ELiTe185, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I tried submitting this to http://browsershots.org/ , but it was removed from the queue before it had a screen shot taken. Maybe they test for this? (such as, if a page is > 10 pages long, then remove from the queue)
- intense321, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This should be world's LONGEST website. HIGHEST = ALTITUDE. Somehow I think my website is a lot higher. It's hosted at 11,652 feet above sea level.
- 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. -
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