What the internet looks like.

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Nuttkase

not nolettuce
Jun 5, 2002
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at the welfare mall
#1
I found this rather interesting so I thought I'd share.

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I created this small partial map of the Internet from the 2005-01-15 data found here using a slightly different rendering technique than was used to generate the maps there. Each line is drawn between two nodes, representing two IP addresses. The length of the lines are indicative of the delay between those two nodes. This graph represents less than 30% of the Class C networks reachable by the data collection program in early 2005. Lines are color-coded according to their corresponding RFC 1918 allocation as follows:

Dark blue: net, ca, us
Green: com, org
Red: mil, gov, edu
Yellow: jp, cn, tw, au de
Magenta: uk, it, pl, fr
Blue-green: br, kr, nl
White: unknown
Kind of looks like some sort of Galaxy or something huh?
 

GHP

Sicc OG
Jul 21, 2002
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from what it looks like there is a centralized point, i wonder if you cut that point off would it kill the internet? hmmmmm