Mapping the Internet

July 4, 2007 1:30pm by Barry Ritholtz

How cool is this?

MIT’s Technology Review: Mapping the Internet.

According to a novel study mapping the structure of the
Internet, the increased use of peer-to-peer communications could "improve the
overall capacity of the Internet and make it run much more smoothly."

Bandwidth and throughput issues aside, what really makes the study interesting is the visualizations they did on what the internet looks like: Its a tangled web of hierarchical structures, based on the connections between individual nodes (such as
service providers).
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The Internet: Your speed may vary
(I don’t see any tubes…)

The Inner core of highly connected nodes
Still no tubes . . .

The outer periphery of isolated networks
Is that a . . . ? No, I guess not.

Source:
Mapping the Internet
Duncan Graham-Rowe
MIT Technology Review, Tuesday, June 19, 2007
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18944/

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Eclectic commented on Jul 4

Kubrick had it figured out a long time ago, didn’t he?:

http://tinyurl.com/3e2has

It’s been a long time since intellect was born on the planet:

http://tinyurl.com/2kr9rl

Maybe it’s about ready to move on.
DavidB commented on Jul 4

it would but it’s stuck in traffic
Eclectic commented on Jul 4

It’s an iPhone, Barringo:

http://tinyurl.com/2kr9rl
Michael commented on Jul 4

Barry,

You may like this blog – http://datamining.typepad.com/data_mining/ – it has many similar graphs of the internet and blogosphere
Barry Ritholtz commented on Jul 4

thanks! looks — pretty cool

I find this site is pretty interesting
http://www.metrics2.com/
Kevin commented on Jul 4

I’ll grant you that there are no tubes if you grant me that that it looks nothing like a truck. Perhaps Stevens was right after all.
halbhh commented on Jul 5

Now those are just plain pretty pictures!
zero529 commented on Jul 5

I didn’t have time to fully explore the Tech Review article, but folks who want to check out their neck of the internet may be interested in Touchgraph’s Google Browser (with whom I have no affiliation):

http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html
Kp commented on Jul 5

Behold the beauty of Al Gore’s creation!

One thing that grabs me is that dot to line ratio is not as robust as I would have hoped.
zero529 commented on Jul 5

Apologies wrt the GoogleBrowser — it used to be much cooler, showing more about links in and not just links out of a site/node.
JLReed commented on Jul 6

but what will it look like after the mega-national telcos and media monopolies kill net neutrality??

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