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What Shape is the Internet?

• vortico 11y ago
  It's like the shape of a typical manifold drawn in a topology textbook. Weird amoeba looking things.
• mirimir 11y ago
  http://internet-map.net/ http://internet-map.net/
  • tylerpachal 11y ago
    Pretty cool; I searched for "stackoverflow.com", which, as expected, was surrounded by programming/software related websites. Was also surprised to see that my university's website (east coast Canadian school) gets 0.004% of "global internet users".
  • blue1 11y ago
    Cool, but misnamed: it's actually a map of the Web. Here are some others: http://www.wired.com/2015/06/mapping-the-internet/ http://www.wired.com/2015/06/mapping-the-internet/
• kaffeemitsahne 11y ago
  Building-size model of the internet in Brussels: http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/02/9d/71/72/filename-atomium-todayout.jpg http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/02/9d/71/72/f...
  • syberspace 11y ago
    that's actually a unit cell of an iron crytal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomium
• amelius 11y ago
  I guess this is why they call it "the cloud".
• pluma 11y ago
  It's clearly box-shaped with an LED on top: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg