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What is it visualizing? Pages or links? Because if it's links, there's no way that Facebook is so large and Wikipedia is so small.
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But then, why all those technology institutes happened to grow there? Back when there weren't many people, or infrastructure, or tech?
"Back when there weren't many people, or infrastructure" What time frame are you thinking of here? I'm not sure it is accurate - there was plenty of infrastructure and people in post WW2 Western US.
Maybe there were plenty, still I guess east coast had much more. Am I wrong?
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That's what I'm saying, it's just not possible. Pageviews would explain Facebook being so much larger than Wikipedia, but think about it - how many links from outside Facebook point to Facebook vs how many links from outside Wikipedia point to Wikipedia?
what about all the Facebook embedded widgets? wouldn't those be links to facebook.com ?
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"Back when there weren't many people, or infrastructure" What time frame are you thinking of here? I'm not sure it is accurate - there was plenty of infrastructure and people in post WW2 Western US.
When those technological institutions were found. Maybe there were plenty, still I guess east coast had much more. Am I wrong?
On the earlier end, Stanford, UCLA, UCSB and Berkeley all trace their roots back to 1860s-1890s.
But you'd probably have to go back to before the gold rush to go to a time when there weren't many people in the bay area: san francisco had about 1,000 people living there in 1848, 25,000 by 1849, and was the 10th most populous city in the US by 1870, and had 300,000 by 1890.
Los Angeles blew up with the discovery of oil and entertainment and broke the top 10 in the 20's and the top 5 in the 30's.
You aren't wrong, the east coast had a lot more people, but they still do today.
This is the Internet map a few months after I first got on from Harv-10 in 1972: http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/7257339850/lightbox/ . Brings back great memories of sitting by the Harvard IMP (router) late at night, and getting a call from BBN on the phone asking me (anyone) to reboot it manually...
By the way, I (as non-US) wonder why west coast and california had more nodes even back then? I mean, west coast is less populated and if you look at night lights map it's practically invisible compared to east coast. Why tech tend to be there anyway?
Plus the usual military nodes early on, since all the ARPA grants were sponsored by the military, and they had to keep their fingers on things.
Apparently it uses Google Maps for display, and I wonder, does GMaps API allow use of custom map data, or does it mean that this visualization is made by Google?
The API lets you load a custom set of map tiles, managing up to 16 (I think) levels of zoom. It doesn't have to be specifically tied to Earth's GPS/cartographic conventions.
What is it visualizing? Pages or links? Because if it's links, there's no way that Facebook is so large and Wikipedia is so small.
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"Back when there weren't many people, or infrastructure" What time frame are you thinking of here? I'm not sure it is accurate - there was plenty of infrastructure and people in post WW2 Western US.
When those technological institutions were found. Maybe there were plenty, still I guess east coast had much more. Am I wrong?
And here is a logical map of the Internet: http://www.peer1.com/map-of-the-internet
A map of websites doesn't really make that much sense as a website can easily be in multiple places
This is actually a very useful advertising tool - if you're considering placing ads on any sites, it's a great way to see how they compare to other sites in terms of traffic and visitor flow.
Agreed, but it's also funny to find inexplicable little outliers in the graph. Amishamerica.com, for instance, seems to be nestled right in the middle of the pornoverse ( http://internet-map.net/#12-157.30947875976562-183.961929321... ).