Map of the Internet 186
Wellington Grey writes "Author of the popular webcomic xkcd has put up a hand made map of the internet as today's comic. He also has an interesting blog entry detailing some of the work that went into it, such a pinging servers and creating a method of fractal mapping to display related regions as contiguous sections on the grid." The drawing is pretty damn impressive; somebody get on making that thing a giant wall poster so I can paper over Taco's office door.
Rasterizer. (Score:4, Insightful)
Clever (Score:5, Insightful)
Wow, I wish I was clever enough to come up with stuff like this.
The author gets additional Cleverness Points for thinking to post the geonetric locations of the major geek sites (slashdot, digg, boingboing, etc.) in order to encourage those sites to repost links to the author's website.
IPv4 space (Score:5, Insightful)
Dragons? (Score:3, Insightful)
Old maps used to claim "Here be dragons", but today it is "Unallocated blocks".
Where has the mystery gone?
Re:Real Map of Internet (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Clever (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Where's the money? (Score:3, Insightful)
I take it you've never read xkcd have you?
Re:IPv4 space (Score:5, Insightful)
Look at how much spqace MIT has. Now, look at how much space the whole of Africa has. Even if we assigned every last block, we would probably never see an African university with a whole
Re:xkcd (Score:3, Insightful)