7 billion people on 1 page

[n2doc]

We recently reached 7 billion people in the world.
On this page you can see every single one of us. One by one.

see link-

http://www.7billionworld.com

[DreamGypsy]

1. Did you count all the little figures to confirm the accuracy of the graphic?

That would only take 221.817 years, at 1 second per figure, one by one (no time out for sleep, food, or potty breaks).

Of course, you could cheat and count the 40,000 figures per row - that's only 11.11 hours- and then count the 175,000 rows (1 second per row) - only 2.026 days, which would reduce the counting time to about 2 and a half days. But could you be certain that the authors weren't devious and left out an one figure somewhere in each row? Maybe fudging the pixels to make missing figure difficult to detect? It would be a big disappointment to only see 6,999,825,000 little figures!

Guess we'll just have to trust them.

I like the statistics about the webpage:

How big is this page?
Huge!
The exact size depends on the screen resolution on your PC, but the page is almost 1 mile (1.6 Km) high and 800 feet (250 m) wide.

Is this the largest webpage on the web ?

Yes, it is probably the largest webpage on the internet, and surely the biggest one with a real reason for being so (it has to fit 7 billion people).

How can this page load so fast? I thought it would take ages, crash my browser, or something...

There is an extremely small amount of code behind the page.
Considering how big the page is, but also in comparison to a standard webpage on the web, the 7billionworld.com page is - in terms of code - very small indeed (only 13KB), thanks to the use of CSS background properties to reproduce all the "people" on the page.

Thanks for the post, n2d.