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Geek Heaven: The Map of the Internet

Internet Map Illustrated and Explained

I remember back in the days when I didn’t have a computer at home with Internet access. My first ISP was Mindspring, and to this day, I still have my first Mindspring email address. I pay extra each month just to keep it. I’m a sucker for anything retro and nostalgic, including email addresses.

It’s so strange because kids these days are the first generation of true digital natives, and they will never know life without the Internet, well, unless someday in the future it’s gone. Richard wrote an article the other day about what life might be like without Google.

Have you ever thought about what the Internet looks like? We all think of it as being a resource for information, but what if we had to assign a physical description to it? How would it look? Would it be a massive ball of confusion? Or could it be like the galaxy in Men In Black… a tiny compact world that would fit in our hand? Peer 1 Hosting decided to take on the job of showing us all what the Internet looks like. Hmm… It’s not quite what I had expected. The Internet is such a big part of my life, and I thought for sure it would be covered in chocolate or at least have a smile face on it.

If you want to know what you’re looking at, according to Peer 1, “The image depicts a graph of 19,869 autonomous system nodes, joined by 44,344 connections.” It uses the same graph-theoretical concept that forms the basis of Google’s PageRank algorithm. You can head on over to Peer 1 Hosting’s website for more geekilicious details. You can also download the high-resolution PDF. Enjoy!

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Geek Heaven Internet Map

Via: [Cool Infographics] Header Image Credit: [seopher]


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Author: Diana Adams


As the editor and global advertising director for Bit Rebels, Diana spends her days fine-tuning the content for Bit Rebels and working with established companies, startups, app developers and Internet entrepreneurs who want to be associated with the Bit Rebels brand. Diana started with Bit Rebels in July of 2009, three weeks after the site launched. She brought fifteen years of Information Technology experience and a love of everything considered geek with her, and she enjoys the journey each day as the site continues to reach more people and progress at a very fast pace. You can usually find Diana working in the Bit Rebels office located in Atlanta or sitting in the corner of a downtown Starbucks somewhere with her MacBook, iPad, iPhone and a Grande Caramel Macchiato. You can reach Diana at diana@bitrebels.com.

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