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Map of the Internet
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.
Amazing that the BBC owns to class As and the british MoD too. I suppose we did invent the damn thing though, so we deserve it.
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Also please learn to draw something other than stick figures.
That said, it's an interesting idea for visual representation of address-space usage.I'll have to post AC now, but I've been pondering developing a map like this (but not by hand!) for work. We use 10/8 internally; various people have tried to impose their own particular logic or schema over the years, and these have been loosely adhered to, but from eyeballing the results of various nmap discovery sweeps it seems some people have just picked random addresses and thrown up their servers wherever it seemed to work. (yes, the internal network is a complete nightmare. For context, we've about 500 users, however we do a lot of software and network app dev work, so there's tons of test and dev kit in amongst the LaserJets and XP desktops. After spending the first 12 months in the job reeling in astonishment and horror at least once a week when a new atrocity emerged, I now realise it's the opportunity of a lifetime. If I can navigate the political melee and bring order to the chaos, I think I'll be able to achieve anything. (When I say "melee" -- think Arthurian knights-on-horseback hewing away with 4 foot broadswords at peasants using planks of wood and hand-turned arrows... *that* sort of melee. If there's anyone out there who's read 'The Once and Future King' they'll know what I mean :)