{"id":121543,"date":"2021-04-14T13:22:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T20:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/this-wild-video-maps-the-entire-internet-and-its-evolution-since-1997"},"modified":"2021-04-14T13:22:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T20:22:55","slug":"this-wild-video-maps-the-entire-internet-and-its-evolution-since-1997","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/this-wild-video-maps-the-entire-internet-and-its-evolution-since-1997","title":{"rendered":"This Wild Video Maps the Entire Internet and Its Evolution Since 1997"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OzDgI0sJQBA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In 2003, Lyon was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/opte-internet-map-visualization\/\">just finishing school and working as a hired hacker<\/a>. Companies tasked him with rooting out vulnerabilities in their systems, and he\u2019d developed mapping tools for the job. His electronic sniffers would trace a network\u2019s lines and nodes and report back what they found. Why not set them loose on the mother of all networks, he thought? So he did.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting visualization recalled grand natural patterns, like networks of neurons or the large-scale structure of the universe. But it was at once more mundane and mind-boggling\u2014representing, as it did, both a collection of mostly standard laptop and desktop computers connected to servers in run-of-the-mill office parks <em>and<\/em> an emerging <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/tag\/technology\/\">technological<\/a> force that was far more than the sum of it parts.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, Lyon updated his map using a new method. Instead of the traceroutes he used in 2003, which aren\u2019t always accurate, he turned to a more precise mapping tool using route tables generated by the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), the internet\u2019s main system for efficiently routing information. And now, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opte.org\/\">he\u2019s back with a new map<\/a> based on BGP routes from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.routeviews.org\/routeviews\/\">University of Oregon\u2019s Route Views project<\/a>. Only this time the map moves: It\u2019s a roughly 25-year time-lapse of the internet\u2019s explosive growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2003, Lyon was just finishing school and working as a hired hacker. Companies tasked him with rooting out vulnerabilities in their systems, and he\u2019d developed mapping tools for the job. His electronic sniffers would trace a network\u2019s lines and nodes and report back what they found. Why not set them loose on the mother [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":594,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,418,1965,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-internet","category-mapping","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/594"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}