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aworks
7,999,993,869 and counting...
marapuru
Opened the page just as it hit 8 billion :-)
system2
Makes you wonder how many people died while I was scrolling down. Or was born. It would be more intense to look at while the newborns and dying people blink on that page.
sulZ
If you scroll fast, only two icons would blink
DarkmSparks
thats a lot of blue bloods, I didnt make it to scroll down to us red blooded people.
beardyw
If you tap it it becomes colour coded. Your wish is granted.
Mengkudulangsat
Wow, 8bn icons on a webpage and it doesn't lag. Is this normal?
omegabravo
It's a tiled image.

Still impressive rendering 2,004,000,000,000 pixels, but we see the efforts of clipping reducing that dramatically.

atmin
Yes. It's one background image, tiled 8 billion times, but you never see more than a screen of tiles at a time. Virtual scrolling is fast.
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kleiba
Awesome! Just by coincidence, I happened to visit that page at the exact point in time when the counter switched from 7,999,999,999 to 8,000,000,000. Epic!
stefandesu
Damn, I visited when it was at like 7,999,998,000 and thought I could catch the switch as well, but I missed it.
Laaas
Is this something to be celebrated?
froggychairs
If your concern is some sort of collapse because we’ve hit some mystic 8 billion im afraid the number of people on Earth won’t be the tipping point of any societal collapse

The planet can support our populations easily, but it can’t support our populations at the rate of resource extraction we are undertaking. Not for long anyways. Maybe your questioning is better served directed in there.

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hirundo
Either women are giving birth with metronomic precision and cooperation, or the regularity is a coding simplification. It would be fun to randomize the increments to give the illusion of a God's Eye view of humanity.