20 Jul
2015
20 Jul
'15
10:02 p.m.
On Monday 20 July 2015 22:51:27 Felix Miata wrote:
Lisi Reisz composed on 2015-07-20 22:26 (UTC+0100):
This is much more interesting than the geography lessons when I did sixth
grade a _long_ time ago!
Lisi
midi-pascal wrote:
Might seem so, but apparently not:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeburg,_Missouri east central Missouri
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belvidere,_Illinois extreme north central
Illinois, nearly Wisconsin, not far from where I lived, in Walworth, WI,
during pre-school summers.
I'm guessing there's at least a 5 hour drive between them, but not too far
that the whole area couldn't be contiguous for a single fiber optic
backbone. If you read Tim's answer on this thread and
try
http://www.whois.com/whois/ with "quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net" you
will get a pretty different location than the one given by freegeoip.
You will even see all the postal coordinates of PearsonComputing...
They could be fairly close - I haven't yet pinpointed them in their
States, but the states are adjacent.