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7 billion people on 1 page

77 points| morphics | 13 years ago |7billionworld.com

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[+] jere|13 years ago|reply
Reminds me of a (dumb) idea I had for a social networking site that was inspired by the million dollar homepage: show 1 million user accounts on one page, no scrolling. Every user can choose the color of their pixel. With zooming in or multiple pages, that could be extended to everyone, but I thought a million people would be pretty cool. Isn't quite as cool with the few dozen people that showed up though. http://humbit.com/humbit.php
[+] felipebueno|13 years ago|reply
I was playing around with Humbit and actually it is pretty cool =). But it is not that useful and gets boring after a few minutes. You could make it more dynamic or something to make users want to use it more.
[+] sbjustin|13 years ago|reply
Neat idea. My only issue is I have a hard time between a 'user' and dust on my screen. lol
[+] seivan|13 years ago|reply
Soooo...... am I the only one who noticed Africa was annotated with a black coloured human, and Asia with a yellow one.
[+] Kequc|13 years ago|reply
This seems a liiiiiiitle bit overly sensitive to me.
[+] alistairclark|13 years ago|reply
Haha yeah me too. It's like Power Rangers all over again.
[+] Cthulhu_|13 years ago|reply
Is there a particular color Africans or Asians prefer to associate themselves with moreso than the colors chosen there? Just curious. I don't see how associating a certain continent with a certain color would be racist.
[+] savrajsingh|13 years ago|reply
Everyone could fit in a cube 1.1 miles on a side.

Let's say each person gets a 72 inch tall, 30 inch wide, 20 inch deep box. That's about 28 cubic feet per person. If you stacked all 7B of these next to each other in a cube, you'd have a cube with a side of just 1.1 miles.

http://instacalc.com/11188

[+] Retric|13 years ago|reply
A lot of people would not fit in boxes of that size (6'x2'6"x1'8"). But, if you where thinking of an average that might work.
[+] goldfeld|13 years ago|reply
Would be cool if new people kept popping on top at the average rate people are born. also a good opportunity to stop such cruel segregation practices, and just mix up the folks at the rate they are born. The new generations should know no race.
[+] bbx|13 years ago|reply
To keep things squared, you'd have to cross out people at the rate they die as well.

And although the colors may suggest otherwise, the 5 continents division is not based on race but rather on location.

[+] tosbourn|13 years ago|reply
I just opened the page up in code inspector and deleted an element, am I going to jail?
[+] yen223|13 years ago|reply
Depends on the colour of the element you deleted...
[+] scottcanoni|13 years ago|reply
In Chrome, the scrollbar disappears after about 3/4 the way down. Interesting, anyone know why?
[+] smoyer|13 years ago|reply
I didn't scroll down far enough to "see everyone", but according to the legend, there are no people in Antarctica. Since it's neutral territory, I guess those people are naturally residents of one of the other continents, but it still seems sad in some way.

EDIT: I guess I would have also split north and south America into two continents ... sorry I didn't notice before!

EDIT2: I should also note that one of the goals on my bucket list was to travel to all 7 continents. I've found out that getting to Antarctica is hard without specific skills (and in some cases, specific employers ... who knew there were polar service companies: http://rpsc.raytheon.com/). I guess my best bet is to become wealthy enough to fund an expedition of my own ... but then I'd have a hard time justifying the cost.

[+] bnegreve|13 years ago|reply
> On this page you can see every single one of us. One by one.

If you want to count them one by one at 1 per sec, you'll need ~220 years.

Edit: I just noted that it was already mentioned in the counting all of us section...

[+] neeee|13 years ago|reply
Some people might find blue europeans, red americans and green australians racist.
[+] nikolakirev|13 years ago|reply
Hehe. You are right. Those are actually the official olympic colors of the continents, se they will get away with it.
[+] TomGullen|13 years ago|reply
Very cool. It would be nice if the colours varied slightly so you had some reference point when scrolling. At the moment I scroll down and the page looks static.
[+] wubbfindel|13 years ago|reply
I would love it if (based on the estimated birth rate) I could put in the date, time and place of my birth and find myself.

That would be cool.

[+] samstave|13 years ago|reply
Iwas thinking that I would like to be able to click on a person and a popup asking for my details would arise. I could populate it with me.

(Just like: Name | DOB | Place of birth | Place of residence)

[+] freshfruit|13 years ago|reply
Awesome. I'm a sucker for a good visualization. What about adding a fixed nav to toggle the image size... sort of a zoom in/out effect?
[+] mdsw1|13 years ago|reply
Just wondered how the population stats are measured? I.E. How do we actually know that there is this amount of people in the world?

Asia 4,221,013,428 Africa 1,056,035,237 Americas 947,209,798 Europe 738,356,924 Oceania 37,384,613

World 7,000,000,000

[+] jerf|13 years ago|reply
We don't, and even if we did, it changes on a minute-by-minute basis. This calls for a bit of suspension of disbelief.
[+] nbashaw|13 years ago|reply
It's interesting how they did it. I was assuming some javascript trick but it's really quite simple and elegant:

    #as1 {
      background-image: url('seven_asia.gif');
      height: 2110500px;
      width: 640000px;
    }
[+] brenfrow|13 years ago|reply
Thats how it loaded so dang fast.
[+] granfalloon|13 years ago|reply
i'm assuming i shouldn't try to print this at work?
[+] kapuzineralex|13 years ago|reply
LIES! There's a link at the bottom of the first page that says "More..."
[+] louhike|13 years ago|reply
It's an indication to scroll to the right.
[+] verygoodyear|13 years ago|reply
"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."

Wow - pretty crazy.

[+] jacquesm|13 years ago|reply
175,000 lines x 40,000 columns of a 16x20 pixel image.

That's a pretty impressive optimization in the browser, I'm fairly sure I don't have that much RAM.

[+] kristopher|13 years ago|reply
This idea could be improved by allowing people to "claim" their spot by logging into Facebook or Twitter, adding a face to an otherwise large number.
[+] orangethirty|13 years ago|reply
Charge them $2 each. That's worth a couple of millions at the very least.