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.

Language on the Internet

This great article/project is home to a number of maps and animations all along the idea of an "internet archipelago." This one in particular looks at the internet through language:

"this mapping is limited to countries are home to a significant population speaking an internet language (a significant population is defined as at least 100,000 first tongue speakers). the political map of the world is rearranged based on internet language populations to create the language archipelago. the united states is placed at the center of the language archipelago for several reasons. it is the only country that has a significant population speaking all ten internet languages. it has the most extensive internet infrastructure. and it was the birthplace of the internet. from there, all the other internet countries are arranged in rays corresponding to the countries’ dominant internet language based on their ascendancy. the national flag at the end of each ray is used as a visual legend to key the ray’s language. this map illustrates the dominant role of the world’s superpowers on in internet and reveal the circumstance of countries at the periphery."

Geography of Domain Names

According to this article on Mappa Mundi there are currently over 18 million .com domains registered on the Internet, along with another 11 million domains of varying sorts. This map was compiled using the billing addresses of domains registered in Manhattan.

The internet as sketched-up buildings - SimCity-style

Here's a site where blogs and websites can pay to register themselves as buildings on the "streets" of the internet. Looks like it's mostly caught on just in Russia and eastern Europe.
link via digg

Geography of Spam

Brief piece from the Economist today showing the top spam-relaying countries.

Country codes of the world

Map design by John Yunker showing relative sizes of top level domain country codes.
Each ccTLD is sized relative to the population of the country or territory, with the exception of China and India, which were restrained by 30% to fit the layout. At the other end of the spectrum, the smallest type size used reflects those countries with fewer than 10 million residents.
link via strange maps