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In case you quite reasonably assumed that xkcd was exaggerating. Brilliant work.

Joseph Humfrey@joe.inkle.co

Very cool, and nicely presented!

23.socialleyrer (@leyrer@23.social)Attached: 1 image This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: https://sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-the-internet

9/10/26, 3:23 pm8 reposts47 likes

@ary.bsky.social

Direct link: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

sheets.worksThe people holding up the internetFour billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.

Abdelrahman Khayri

@abdelrahmankh.bsky.social

Veritasium made a great video about xz.