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From: metzger@watson.ibm.com (Perry E. Metzger)
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Subject: Re: Map of Internet
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Date: 27 May 91 17:35:07 GMT
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In article <552.283ced35@vax87.aud.auc.dk> dalk@vax87.aud.auc.dk writes:
>I am looking for a map of the Internet for a slide. Does someone on the net
>have this on a PostScript file (or another print file) ?

At one time, a number of years ago, I saw such a thing. Back then,
there was just the ArpaNet and a few other add-ons.

Now, there are literally hundreds of thousands of machines on the
internet. There are thousands of networks, including lots and lots off
people who have SLIP connections to the darndest places (I know people
with home ethernet networks and SLIP connections in to the internet).
Most of these sites don't have their latitude and longitude known by
anyone, including their owners, so a geographic map of sites is, for
most sites, impossible. A logical map would tell you very little
indeed; it would just be a giant connected graph.

Furthermore, there are now lots of cross country networks, too. NSFnet
is of course a major backbone, but PSI, AlterNet, and others exist,
too. They all interoperate and interconnect, but there is no longer
one single nationwide backbone the way that the ArpaNet used to be.

If there is a postscript internet map, it must be woefully incomplete,
and highly uninformative.

Perry Metzger
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