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Mapping the Internet Evolution

Posted by Zonk on from the take-a-left-at-amazon-and-then-a-right-past-fark dept.

Shire writes "Science magazine is running a story on the DIMES project, which has ventured to map the structure and evolution of the Internet (PDF) using open source distributed clients in the style of SETI@Home and such. DIMES has already collected more than 40 Millions measurements which resulted in some nice pictures and several scientific presentations. Those who use traceroute may find it a useful (and colorful) alternative."

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  1. Rebel... by Adam+Avangelist · · Score: 5, Funny

    Rebel spies have intercepted the plans to the Death Star and posted them on this site.

    http://www.netdimes.org/ipmap.png

    1. Re:Rebel... by gnatware · · Score: 3, Funny

      Empire galactic control has raised shields that block access to the Death Star, as rebels wait for the secret Jedi Google to copy the plans to the rebel "mirror".

    2. Re:Rebel... by carninja · · Score: 3, Funny

      Ladies and Gentlemen, this is an example of a Star Wars analogy gone too far.

      *shakes head*

  2. Slashdotted already.... by jpardey · · Score: 5, Funny

    They obviously don't know that much about internet evolution...

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    1. Re:Slashdotted already.... by DrEldarion · · Score: 4, Funny

      Don't say "evolution"! You'll alert the fundamentalists, and then they'll start trying to get the internet left out of textbooks.

  3. Internet Evolution poppycock by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Internet is far too complex to have just "Evolved". Things like this don't just spring into being without an Intelligent Designer. We even know exactly who the designer was: Al Gore. And we know exactly why he designed it: to route around nuclear wars. The media needs to stop trying to represent unproven theories as the truth when we already know the truth.

    1. Re:Internet Evolution poppycock by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Damn.

      I think you just proved that Al Gore is God.

      This is not good news.

    2. Re:Internet Evolution poppycock by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      my browser is better than IE 5.5 but for some reason the sites still don't load correctly.

    3. Re:Internet Evolution poppycock by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      I can see it now: a thousand years in the future, after Solar War %&@ (hey, you really think they're still going to be using Roman Numerals then?), when the Net is an intelligent, self-aware consciousness, but all records of its creation were lost in World War VIII centuries before (and the Net itself was so badly damaged that it too forgets), there will be people fighting over how the Net's genesis should be taught in schools.

      It was spontaneous evolution! Given enough time, anything that complicated can come about from chaotic chance. Humans could not have built something that complicated so long ago. Those morons didn't even have anti-gravity!

      It had to have been intelligent design! Nothing that complicated arises out of chaos! And the humans wouldn't have had to know that they were building something that complicated. Surely the Net would have become self-aware within a few years and then could have helped with its own design. I mean, hook up a couple of quantum flux-capacitiers to each other and they become aware after a few minutes.

      And then everyone will go and enjoy a healthy breakfast of rare steak and hot fudge sundaes.

  4. When my eyesight comes back.... by jpardey · · Score: 2, Funny

    I will have to take another look.

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  5. Internet EVOLUTION??? by deft · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cmon now... can't we all agree that this was intelligent design? I mean, look at a router... its so intricate, so... functional.... it must have been put here for this purpose by a higher power.

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    1. Re:Internet EVOLUTION??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      Let me be the first to (Zonk!) map the evolution of (Zonk!) slashdot.

      Every hour, at (Zonk!), someone under the Zonk pseudo posts a (Zonk!) news blurb on the site.

      This (Zonk!) probably helped reduce the cost of running the (Zonk!) site, and reduced the (Zonk!) dups.

      Zonk. For you consomation pleasure, the products have been standardized.

      Zonk. A name for the slashdot collective.

      Zonk. Entirely harmless if used as directed.

      Zonk. You have been easten by a grue.

  6. Re:How utterly... by g-san · · Score: 4, Funny

    Blasphemy indeed! Everyone knows the internet is FLAT! Only heretics believe the internet is ROUND! If you send a packet with a large enough TTL, it falls right off the edge!

  7. Skittles by ajkst1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did anyone look at the IP Map and immediately think, "Boy that looks a lot like a Skittles commerical." ?

  8. which brings us to our next topic... by jpardey · · Score: 2, Funny

    Breasts.

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  9. Re:I wish... by Tenebrious1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I had the slightest clue what those images meant.

    It's simple. Your ship is the white blip in the center. You have to shoot your way out as the concentric rings rotate around you. I think it's based on Yars Revenge or something.

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