Map of the Internet

Map of the Internet (1)
Originally uploaded by savtadotty.

This map is on the wall of the Stanford University Computer Science building in Palo Alto, California. The explanation says:

This map depicts the shortest outgoing routes from a test computer at Lumeta headquarters in Somerset, New Jersey, to each of over 320,000 registered or announced nets on the Internet. Each end node can represent a handful of computers on a small network or perhaps a large company with hundreds of thousands of hosts. Each intermediate node is a router.

More info, fascinating if you're a geek like me, can be found at http://research.lumeta.com/ches/map/