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Previously unknown data has been researched and now shows the wide reach of the internet
Everyone knows that the internet is wide reaching but it has never been mapped in this way before. Researchers at the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute in Marina del Rey, California used 3 billion probes which sought out the location of each IP address on the internet and then mapped it. The project took around two months to complete and around 187 million answers from the probed computers came back.
The result is what has been dubbed "The Internet Census" and the map it creates is the first step to understanding the density of the internet in different locations as well as showing how integrated it is becoming into everyday life in some countries.
The US of course has some of the denser areas of IP addresses along with part of Europe. The map shows how easily web virus’s can spread. The map, when printed with one dot representing an IP address the map measures around 9 feet by 9 feet. The condensed version uses one dot to represent 65,000 addresses. - An online version is available.
The data is useful in helping plan for the Internets future, with Web 2.0 technology gaining momentum it is important to protect users by understanding how the net has developed. Similarly with more important transactions taking place online and the latest online MLS technologies holding huge amounts of sensitive data protection is the key.
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Researchers map the Internet
ANY Census of Internet Address Space
The official map in online format
