Full Net Census Takes a Hint From xkcd

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 9, 2007 @06:01AM from the you-say-hilbert-i-say-dilbert dept.

netbuzz writes "The University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute says it's the first full census of the 'visible Internet' since David Smallberg canvassed a piddling 315 allocated addresses in 1982. They're talking about 3 billion pings directed toward 2.8 million addresses over the course of 62 days. Oh, and they credit the comic strip xkcd for sparking the idea of presenting the data using a Hilbert curve." The main page for the census project has links to versions of the census at various scales.

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Re:See also xkcd comic "Online Communities" by gerbalblaste · 2007-10-09 06:40 · Score: 5, Informative

nope thats not slashdot. slashdot is labled /. and is bordered by reddit and soviet russia on the viral straights.

The isle of slash is something very different from slashdot, mostly involving harry potter...