Did you know: despite its apparent massive scale, the Internet is located inside a two-story brick building near Limerick Colbert train station.

#MastoDaoine

@dmbaturin
Jen, this is.... the internet.
@dlakelan @dmbaturin This building is actually 123 Carenden Road, central London.
@vonxylofon
No, it's in Limerick.
@krnlg It's an IT Crowd joke.
@vonxylofon
Ooh sorry πŸ˜…πŸ˜…

@vonxylofon @dlakelan @dmbaturin
They have Continuity IRA graffiti in London?

Besides I know the place. I've walked past it.

@raymaccarthy
Its a joke. thats the address of Reynholm industries in the IT crowd, which is where my joke about Jen came from.
@vonxylofon @dmbaturin

@vonxylofon @dlakelan @dmbaturin

Just call:

🎢 0118 999 881 999 119 7253 🎢

@calcius @dmbaturin This is the only correct response.
@rjblaskiewicz @calcius @dmbaturin Yes. The elders of the internet have heard your plea Jenn and have allowed you to borrow the internet for the day.
@tezoatlipoca @rjblaskiewicz @calcius @dmbaturin the Elders of the Internet?

The Elders of the Internet know who I am?!
@dmbaturin There are some days I do feel this.
@dmbaturin
I wouldn't be surprised if there was a mad scientist in the basement. πŸ€”
@dmbaturin do they let you do takeaway or do you have to surf it on the premises?
@ottaross @dmbaturin I’m guessing you have to wear white gloves first?
@ottaross @dmbaturin if you bring a USB stick they'll let you borrow a bit to browse offline but you have to bring it back and be kind, rewind

@dmbaturin

Naaahhhh.... I believe in another gospel.

@dmbaturin

This is a very misleading post. Most of the Internet is not actually in the two-story building, but in the massive bunker that goes several kilometres down underneath the building.

@david_chisnall @dmbaturin
Wait, were we lied by The IT Crowd??? 😲
@david_chisnall @dmbaturin where, presumably, there is a series of tubes.

@dmbaturin

it used to be a public convenience..

@dmbaturin The system of tubes is stored in the building next door.
@dmbaturin
You're all wrong, this is the internet.
@dmbaturin I watch the IT crowd so look for a box inside the building
@Robo105 @dmbaturin
Several boxes. Sometimes the cleaner unplugs one.
https://m.xkcd.com/908/
xkcd: The Cloud

@dmbaturin
To be fair they also use some of the basement space
@dmbaturin
Fake, they only host the backup!
@dmbaturin They moved it? I thought the internet was a black box with a red LED kept in the tower of Big Ben...
@dmbaturin is it in a box as shown in it crowd tv show?

@dmbaturin

Tim Berners-Lee used to live in the apartment upstairs, didn't he?

@dmbaturin have they tried turning it off and back on again?

@dmbaturin The place is probably much bigger on the inside.  

#drwho

@dmbaturin Yesterday I downloaded it. Always nice to have a back-up.

@dmbaturin

This is where John Mastodon was born, when there was no room at the Inn, and the storefront was just a stable back then before his followers commemorated it as The Innternet

@float13 Like with all legends and relics, it's difficult to say for certain.
There are like five sites claiming to be his birthplace, and countless shrines that claim to have his trunk, tusks, collarbones, and other organs, despite the fact that he's repeatedly sighted by his followers with all those organs intact.
@dmbaturin That's completely reasonable: the space inside is clearly vastly greater than the outside.
@dmbaturin and if we all "go into the internet", we end up here? I was expecting something more like a pokΓ©ball...
@dmbaturin I'm bookmarking this for the next time capitalisation of INTERNET comes up in conversation.
@JSAMcFarlane The all-caps version evades the question of whether it's the global Internet or an internet in the sense of RFC1918 (address allocation for private internets)...

@dmbaturin

So the Internet, like the TARDIS, is bigger on the inside than on the outside?

@dmbaturin In my memory it was bigger πŸ€”
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Attached: 1 image The famous Limerick Computer. If you want to use the Internet in Ireland, this is where you go.

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@dmbaturin

much like the TARDIS, it's much bigger on the inside. :)

@dmbaturin Ahh, the Internet has street parking, nice.
@dmbaturin That Passat is very pretty. I had a 1993 Passat GLX in that color, first car I ever bought on my own.
@gcvsa It's not mine, it probably belongs to some of the elders of the Internet!
@dmbaturin Many people make that mistake but bit-strings are really thin and bendy.
@dmbaturin ok the internet, it might de a fake picture….., the car is parking inside the marks! That’s never true. ☝️