In this map by Infortune Moment, every category of Interweb artifact is a country within a larger thematic continent. But the WTF island is so small. WTF?
In this map from Discover Magazine, every line represents the journey of one packet of data between two nodes. The resulting quilt offers a transitory map of the web.
This is actually a three-year-old version of the Web Trend Map, which has become much, much more sophisticated than this early schema based on the subway maps of Paris and London.
TeleGeography’s map of the web for Cisco Systems reveals how the majority of data traveling online moves across the Pacific.
Ph.D.student Chris Harrison’s Internet map is similar to ones above, except maybe a little easier on the eyes, with data movements revealing more or less where the world’s major cities are
This epic map by deviantART user darkdoomer is based on a distorted map of the earth with sites and networks grouped thematically. In a weird twist of fate, Google ended up in the pinched and twisted territory previously known as China.
This is the Internet in 1999, a much less sexy and well-organized place. Although it’s a masterpiece compared to…
The web looked like a small circuit board in its infancy in 1987.
In this children’s drawing-style version of the Internet map by Paul Kwiatkowski, you’ll notice that Flash games have their own tropical archipelago.
This more sophisticated treasure map-type layout by xkcd is decidedly pre-Facebook, hence the vast regions set aside for MySpace and Friendster.
excerpts from http://listicles.thelmagazine.com/2010/ … -internet/
