MAPS OF THE INTERNETz

How can you really know what the internet looks like? Really. It is an abstract ideal, like a social network, a neural network, or a tangle of informational digital fishing line. Here are some of my favorite attempts:

pdf:


gallery of some other maps [thanks "ben"]:
http://www.cheswick.com/ches/map/gallery/index.html

more "artistic" types:


there's another project i liked better but i can't find the link to it now. it'd be fantastic if there were a 3d version [google sketchup?]