Sir Tim Berners-Lee's Growth of the Internet

Interesting representation from Sir Tim Berners-Lee showing the development of the internet/web over time from the early headwaters to the "sea of interoperability."

This one reminded me of the topographical approach xckd took.

via BBC and this blog

iA's Web Trend Map 3

The latest and greatest from information architects. Link.

Longitudinal View

A representation of the internet by longitude, from the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis.

From CAIDA's site:

This visualization represents a macroscopic snapshot of the Internet for two weeks: August 1st, 2007 through August 15th, 2007. The graph reflects 760,922 IP addresses and 1,400,796 IP links ... We aggregate this view of the network into a topology of Autonomous Systems (ASes), each of which approximately maps to an Internet Service Provider (ISP). We map each IP address to the AS responsible for routing it, i.e., the origin (end-of-path) AS for the best match IP prefix of this address observed in Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing tables. Eighty percent of ASes with known locations are placed in the Americas, Europe/Africa, and Asia/Oceana.

via millsworks

Country domain mapping

Zooknic.com maps the relative distribution of domains in Google Earth using the concepts of political and technical location.

Undersea Internet

This map from the Guardian UK shows the undersea cable network supporting much of the world's internet access. (source: braincubes.be)

Internet bandwidth map

This is old news, but TeleGeography published an updated Global Internet Map in 2006 showing "international internet bandwidth, scaled by capacity—covering backbones operated by more than 300 international Internet carriers as of mid-2005" ... in any case, it's $225 so I probably won't buy it to see the detail, but in the interest of compiling a more comprehensive collection of what is available, I am posting on it. The 2001 version looked good too.

Opte Project

One of the original widely viewed representations of the internet from the Opte Project (2003 I think). Captures the organic fractal-like development of the web.