the First Internet Census Since 1982
Oct. 15th, 2007 03:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vamysteryfanI'm a spamming fool today, taking a break in between writing about emergency planning. Anywya, I thought this was interesting. From 315 Internet addresses in 1982 to 2.8 billion 25 years later.
62 Days + Almost 3 Billion Pings + New Visualization Scheme = the First Internet Census Since 1982
Researchers at the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, one of the birthplaces of the Internet decades ago, have just completed and plotted a comprehensive census of all of the more 2.8 billion allocated addresses on the Internet -- the first complete effort of its kind in more than two decades, they say.
Heidemannn and Pradkin have also plotted a second rendering where each pixel represents a single address. When printed out at laser-printer resolution, this map that literally shows every address in the Internet takes up a 9x9 foot space on a corridor wall in ISI's Marina del Rey campus.
Full story here http://www.isi.edu/news/news.php?story=178#
62 Days + Almost 3 Billion Pings + New Visualization Scheme = the First Internet Census Since 1982
Researchers at the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, one of the birthplaces of the Internet decades ago, have just completed and plotted a comprehensive census of all of the more 2.8 billion allocated addresses on the Internet -- the first complete effort of its kind in more than two decades, they say.
Heidemannn and Pradkin have also plotted a second rendering where each pixel represents a single address. When printed out at laser-printer resolution, this map that literally shows every address in the Internet takes up a 9x9 foot space on a corridor wall in ISI's Marina del Rey campus.
Full story here http://www.isi.edu/news/news.php?story=178#
