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Re: Map of the Internet

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Post by hollerith »

> this project aims to concisely, but still comprehensively visualize the current state of the World Wide Web, and document the largest and most popular websites

You don't want to call it the map of the Web instead?

Re: Map of the Internet

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Post by na85 »

hollerith wrote: post #2

> this project aims to concisely, but still comprehensively visualize the current state of the World Wide Web , and document the largest and most popular websites You don't want to call it the map of the Web instead?

It's surprising how many ostensibly-tech savvy people don't understand the difference between the web and the internet.

Re: Map of the Internet

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Post by walrus01 »

fauria wrote: post #5

The closest actual maps of the Internet I know of are the ones from CAIDA: https://www.caida.org/projects/cartography/as-core/2020/ Link to PNG file: https://www.caida.org/projects/cartography/as-core/pics/2020...

It should be noted that this is a map at what we would call layer 3 in the OSI model. ipv4/ipv6 space and BGP relationships between ASes.

Giant transit ISPs like Cogent own little if any underlying fiber infrastructure, which is much harder to map and have 100% topology discovery of by researchers sitting at desks somewhere. Lots of transit ISPs like HE, Telia or Cogent buy inter-city transport from "carrier of carrier" specialists who own the underlying assets, run DWDM systems on them, and so forth.

Without proprietary information from carriers' GIS systems (at Level3/Lumen/Centurylink, Zayo or similar) it's much harder to do that.

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