Good internet map for wall poster

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We are looking for cool posters of an internet map for our office walls. We are a technology consulting company so that seems like the right kind of decoration. Since this is for a company office Server Fault seems like the right place to ask.

I have seen interesting network maps as conference shwag, but where do I buy them?

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 01 '10 at 22:53

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You might try browsing the CAIDA site. Making cool maps of the Internet is their job.

answered Oct 01 '10 at 22:53

Gerald Combs

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I feel dumb for not mentioning nmap's Icons of the Web: http://nmap.org/favicon/ since I got to see Fyodor show it off it in person. – Gerald Combs Oct 02 '10 at 22:05
The CAIDA map is quite old :) – Antoine Benkemoun Oct 06 '10 at 08:15

score 4 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 08 '17 at 17:46

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From xkcd:

New! Online Communities 2

Best trivia I learned while working on this: 'Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the WORLD?' Then you wait for the listener to do a double-take.

Map of the Internet

For the IPv6 map just imagine the XP default desktop picture.

Online Communities

I'm waiting for the day when, if you tell someone 'I'm from the internet', instead of laughing they just ask 'oh, what part?'

Both are available as posters from the xkcd store.

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answered Oct 01 '10 at 23:21

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 01 '10 at 23:34

I'm getting a bit tired of the ever present XKCD maps, so here are some more modern and interesting maps in A0 size:

Web Trends map modelled after Tokyo subway: http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/wtm4/

The 140 most influential Twitter users, their #name #handle #category #influence #activity, when they first started and what they first said: http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/c140/

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 01 '10 at 22:35

If you are looking for something nostalgic: http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cybergeography//atlas/historical.html

Something a little more modern: http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cybergeography//atlas/geographic.html

More from google images: http://www.google.com/images?q=internet%20maps

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 01 '10 at 23:21

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XKCD has two very nice internet maps: IP space and online communities. It's not entirely fresh anymore, though.

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 24 '11 at 13:42

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The TeleGeography Global Internet Map is the best I've found, and it's up-to-date (2011), but it's extremely expensive ($250).

answered Oct 24 '11 at 13:42

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Good internet map for wall poster

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