A Map Of The Universe Of The Internet [Infographic]
You Are Here Internet Universe/E. ElertIf the biggest 350,000 web sites on the internet were real places, this is what the map would look like As of last year, there were something like 650 million active web sites on the Internet. That number is growing fast, but even if it weren't--even if it stopped dead in its tracks right now--you could spend the next 50 years surfing the web at a pace of five sites per minute, 12 hours a day, 365 days per year, and you'd still only visit (briefly) 10% of the Internet Universe. Unlike the actual Universe, however, the Internet's places do not exist in physical space--there's no such thing as one website being "close" or "far" from another one; the two are either linked or they are not. While those links don't correspond directly to any kind of distance or direction, they do suggest a relationship....