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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. They might actually know a bit about the Intarweb. by mfh · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Generally speaking, one is not Slashdotted every day. I've been Slashdotted once before (and I consider myself lucky for it). I can remember feeling a sense of relief/pride when the servers held and my Open Source PHP CMS project didn't crap out into oblivion due to the pressure. There was no outage... just a crapload of pages served.

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  2. Re:Internet Evolution poppycock by FidelCatsro · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think "Requires IE 5.5 or better" is the strongest case we have against inteligent design on the internet

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