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Map of the Internet

Posted by Hemos on from the truly-impressive dept.

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.

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  1. Impressive, yes... but does it contain by zappepcs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    any truthiness?

    Someone send this to Colbertnation.com and ask them for a review?

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  2. Hmm... by FlyingSquidStudios · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Slashdot warrants a special mention as does suicide girls.

    I think we have a pretty good insight into the sick and twisted human mind with this map.

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  3. Re:Interesting... by griffjon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Dude, he pointed out slashdot. What, do you want mapquest directions to the dragons?

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