BEHOLD http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/system/files/200706119_internettopology.jpg
no really
"The researchers discovered that the Internet consists of a dense, heavily connected nucleus of about 100 nodes, including Google and U.S. telecommunications giant ATT WorldNet. Surrounding this core was a region they called the 'peer-connected' component, which is able to connect to the bulk of the Internet without causing congestion in the nucleus. It is possible for data to get between any two points in the peer-connected component within about four links. The final, outermost layer is more sparsely connected, and must travel through the nucleus to reach other nodes.
The authors recommend that in the future, communications should be more often routed through nodes in the peer-connected component to improve the Internet's overall capacity and to avoid congestion in the nucleus."
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 21 June 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)
it's a plasma ball!
http://i12.tinypic.com/4xwnoqq.jpg
hippie scientists were right!
(next: the universe is a lava lamp/consciousness is an oil projection)
― StanM, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)
(, man)
I wish Marshall McLuhan were here to say something awesome and cryptic about this.
― Hurting 2, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)
(in fact I have Mr. McLuhan right here)
Haha. I love how they're like "It's not shaped like a web after all!" like this rendering of the Internet is, in fact, the Internet.
― Will M., Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:00 (eighteen years ago)
I actually thought it was shaped like a whole network of cables, spread out around a planet-shaped object roughly the size of Earth, but I guess I was wrong then.
― StanM, Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)
It's a sort of ball of wool with an aerated pine-lime centre! And if you peer very closely, you will see, on the top right hand side of the outermost ring, my blog.
― moley, Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)
Can someone check something? I'm going to bed in two minutes - when I turn off my PC, does one of the purple dots disappear?
thx! (I'll read the reply tomorrow at work)
― StanM, Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)
it's called a "graph" and this is actually very useful information
― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:22 (eighteen years ago)
Nacho Libre: "Beneath the clothes, we find a man... and beneath the man, we find his... nucleus"
― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:25 (eighteen years ago)
So the big insight here is that a trip through downtown will slow you up more than if you stick to the loop?
WHOA!
― Oilyrags, Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)
the big insight here is that now they have a map of the city
― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:32 (eighteen years ago)
...which tomorrow's bgp digest will render incorrect
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:57 (eighteen years ago)
the reason the core is the core is because it's stable. the reason the peering area is the peering area is because it's not as stable. the reason the AS's on the outside are on the outside are because they switcheroo a lot more often than the rest. it'd be nice to think the topology was ready to be fixed, though. also autonomous systems aren't the internet either, most of the computers "on the internet" still think their names begin with 192.168 or 10.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:59 (eighteen years ago)
"think"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 21 June 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)
I have an idea, instead of making up ANOTHER brand new bolt-on solution for QoS in IPV4, why don't the telcos fucking pony up a little change and fucking IMPLEMENT IPV6 if youtube is making their lives so hard
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 21 June 2007 23:02 (eighteen years ago)
bunch of whiny a-holes running this boat
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 21 June 2007 23:03 (eighteen years ago)
This is some undergraduate computer science level shit. Graph theory
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 21 June 2007 23:07 (eighteen years ago)
haha word
― El Tomboto, Friday, 22 June 2007 01:36 (eighteen years ago)
wait I mean haha WORD!!!!
http://www.caida.org/analysis/topology/as_core_network/pics/ascoreApr2005.png http://www.caida.org/analysis/topology/as_core_network/pics-ipv6/ascore.center.200505-1256x979.png
― El Tomboto, Friday, 22 June 2007 01:38 (eighteen years ago)
http://graphviz.org/
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 22 June 2007 01:38 (eighteen years ago)
and yeah the dates on those graphics (which you can order as big posters and display, framed, to show off ultimate nerd balls) would be two fuckin' years ago
― El Tomboto, Friday, 22 June 2007 01:39 (eighteen years ago)
yo jon let's form a team and make 'em eat shit
― El Tomboto, Friday, 22 June 2007 01:40 (eighteen years ago)
and say word a lot
Yeah wtf is ever happening with IPV6 anyway.
― Trayce, Friday, 22 June 2007 01:45 (eighteen years ago)
peeps be putting it off because manpower is expensive and there's nobody around to hire with 5+ years of IPv6 backbone management experience buh buh whut duhhhh
― El Tomboto, Friday, 22 June 2007 02:08 (eighteen years ago)
seriously that's the answer, all modern OSs support v6 but getting dickmonkeys like me & my colleagues to make sure the trains run on time is impossible since right now the only places to learn IPv6 pragmatics are heavytown academic labs and the US DOE
― El Tomboto, Friday, 22 June 2007 02:10 (eighteen years ago)
I sure as shit only barely understand it.
― Trayce, Friday, 22 June 2007 02:33 (eighteen years ago)
yea also even places that route ip6 rarely have DNS or even basic services for ip6 running.
We are so fucked. But hey, I'm moving on to the creative world. Have fun bitches!!!!
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 22 June 2007 02:34 (eighteen years ago)
Wait a minute! Does this mean YouTube is wrong and should rename their business to YouSphere?
― StanM, Friday, 22 June 2007 06:01 (eighteen years ago)
no the Tube in youtube refers to telelvision tubes
FACT
― Ste, Friday, 22 June 2007 08:46 (eighteen years ago)
Does this mean YouTube is wrong and should rename their business to YouThinfilmtransistorliquidcrystal?
― StanM, Friday, 22 June 2007 08:47 (eighteen years ago)
http://static.flickr.com/27/65836969_cbcb692b7c.jpg
― Billy Dods, Friday, 22 June 2007 08:52 (eighteen years ago)
good old uunet!
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 22 June 2007 08:54 (eighteen years ago)
when i was a lad all this looked like figure 6.1 http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/historical.html
(and why a sphere? - looks flat to me)
― koogs, Friday, 22 June 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/98/248347823_644a59d1ab.jpg?v=0
― El Tomboto, Friday, 22 June 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/126/361828025_4c9057a2e4_o.png
― El Tomboto, Friday, 22 June 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/aCV3GCh.gif
― 乒乓, Saturday, 2 February 2013 22:49 (thirteen years ago)
El Tomboto's picture looks a lot like the cover of this real-life book...http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61vW8LrWx4L._SL500_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-big,TopRight,35,-73_OU02_.jpg
― Prisoner: Cell Block J/K (snoball), Saturday, 2 February 2013 23:20 (thirteen years ago)
I highly recommend "What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry". We are living in some psychedelic times.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 2 February 2013 23:54 (thirteen years ago)
just breaking
― Solaris Ocean Blue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 February 2022 01:04 (four years ago)