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    I haven't seen one of these done in a few years, but this is looking a lot cooler than any one I've seen previously. Behold, the Internet:

    http://opte.org/maps/

    45 5F E1 04 22 CA 29 C4 93 3F 95 05 2B 79 2A B0
    45 5F E1 04 22 CA 29 C4 93 3F 95 05 2B 79 2A B1
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    "i can see my router from way up here"
    "I'll admit I had an OiNK account and frequented it quite often… What made OiNK a great place was that it was like the world's greatest record store… iTunes kind of feels like Sam Goody to me. I don't feel cool when I go there. I'm tired of seeing John Mayer's face pop up. I feel like I'm being hustled when I visit there, and I don't think their product is that great. DRM, low bit rate, etc... OiNK it existed because it filled a void of what people want."
    - Trent Reznor

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Deviant Ollam
      "i can see my router from way up here"
      "OK, remember, we're parked in the North America lot..."

      Nifty maps. Dunno why, but I've always been kinda fascinated with the idea of mapping the Internet.

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      • #4
        The internet is a huge multi-colored dandelion!

        But really, that's a cool picture.
        Answering easy questions since 1987
        Si Dieu est pour moi, qui peut être contre moi?

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        • #5
          Wow that's a pretty cool concept. I'll have to check out those VRMLs, I used to be so much into those back in the day, and even made some of my own worlds, pretty cool. A whole new meaning to "browsing the internet".

          They should use it to generate a map and turn it into a space game or something, would be cool. :D
          Red Squirrel

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          • #6
            hmm, is it based on actual informations?

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            • #7
              Originally posted by 2 guys and girl
              hmm, is it based on actual informations?
              No, they just made it all up. Next week I'm coming out with a similar map for the transmissal of all germs across the globe.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by 2 guys and girl
                hmm, is it based on actual informations?
                Is this a serious question? If you had visited the posted site, you would have been able to read (as I did) that:
                The first goal of this project is to use a single computer and single Internet connection to map the location of every single class C network on the Internet. It is obvious that the Internet is not routed as a bunch of class-c networks, but it is easy to see that by treating the Internet IP space as a bunch of class C networks, it will be possible to make a detailed map of the entire Internet. The global Internet address space currently offers 32 bits worth of unique host addresses, or a theoretical maximum of 2^32=4,294,967,296 hosts. In reality, the address space has been allocated in fairly large contiguous blocks, which renders strictly optimal utilization difficult. The smallest block that is logically routed via BGP or allocated by ARIN is a class C network (CIDR /24.) After that concept was shown as possible we moved on to a multi-node scanning system to provide better image and route detail.
                And so on. So yet, it is based on actual information.
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                • #9
                  I wonder what time it would tell if this particular dandelion of spores was blown on by a wishful child in the summer breeze?


                  "They-Who-Were-Google are no longer alone. Now we are all Google."

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