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Description !!!!MAP OF THE INTERNET 2.0 NOW AVAILABLE!!!!

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Second version of our flagship project, the Map of the Internet. This is definitely not the final version, incredible amount of websites and software companies are not on the map and will be incorporated in later updates.

Map of the Internet - First of its kind on such a scale, this map aims for succesful compendation of The Internet to scale suitable for standartized online navigation. This project is still underway, new versions of this map will be available in ulterior months. 
Due to the immense size of the Net, only a miniscule portion of it was chosen to represent it on the map.  Otherwise, this map would be unreadable and probably undrawable in entire lifespan of average human being. 
This poster includes one full map of the internet, 4 minimaps showcasing NSA surveillance, most used social networks, most used internet browser, and worldwide internet penetration, list of Alexa Top 500 websites, quick timeline of the Internet History, top software companies and much more!
By Martin Vargic/Jay Jason Simons

I'm a student and amateur(not full-time professional) graphic designer from Slovakia, Bratislava(Central Europe).

I started making maps about 2 and half years ago, and it has quickly become my free-time hobby. I post my works mainly to deviantart, and until recent days, I was never significantly noticed. It was my hobby, and it still is my hobby, though I am planning to start selling prints of my maps on amazon quite soon(two-three weeks).
Until March 2013, I was working only on minor projects, often making commisioned fantasy map drawings as a side work.

In April, I started to work on my first major project - massive scale political map of the world, which is also on deviantart, and can be found there:  the9988.deviantart.com/art/Pol…

In December, I started to work on other two projects, Map of the Internet and Map of the Stereotypes, first version of the Internet Map has already been finished, and Map of Stereotypes will be released sometimes in February.


I was originally inspired by map of the internet created by xkcd, showing most popular social networks as countries and regions, back in 2010. It was not my original idea, but I extended it to such a scale for the first time. I used photoshop for the majority of drawing. 
The base style of the map was inspired by the National Geographic Maps, I also used Winkel Tripel Projection and similar border coloring fashion.

I created the map in quite a short time, three weeks to be exact. I often worked early in the morning, and I can say I really enjoyed it.

I got the data about website sizes mainly from Alexa and similar online services.

The map is divided into 2 distinctive parts; the eastern continent, "the old world" showcases software companies, gaming companies and some of the more real-life oriented websites

Western part, "the new world" is composed from two major continent, northern one showcasing social networks, search websites, video websites, blogs, forums and art websites.

All major adult-oriented websites, in addition to varioius warez and torrent sites, are located on the southwestern continent of the map.

In the very south of the map, there is located "Great Southern Land" of obsolete websites and online services.

Outside the main map, there are also 4 minimaps showing NSA monitoring by country, most used browser, most used social network, and internet penetration by country.

The scale between a website's traffic and its size is not exact, but websites are generally portrayed in ratio relative to it.

Map includes mostly english-language websites, although all major foreign(russian, chinese, indian) websites still get a mention.

Prints of the 2.0 version of the map can be bought there: www.zazzle.com/map_of_the_inte…

UPDATE: Map of the Internet 3.0. will be released in early May 2014, featuring more than 300 new websites and services!!!

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Comments: 63

FaithfulJudas [2014-02-02 04:21:56 +0000 UTC]

As an Iranian, I have never felt so insulted in my entire life, that you somehow put Iran, a country of Indo-European people who speak an Indo-European language part of "Greater Arabia". Arabs who are Semitic, and speak a Semitic language. Not only do these countries have unique and completly different histories and cultures, they also hate each other and would never in a million years be in the same country together. Pair that with the fact that Iran has more people than the Gulf States + Saudi Arabia + Iraq. Then, how Iran a country with sanctions has a stronger economy, and lets not even begin to speculate on what happens when Arabs run out of Oil and Iran is free of sanctions. They only have sand, where as Iran is full of natural gas, oil, and all minerals you can possibly think of. Good God, FUCK YOU for lumping them together, I swear to God, the shit history you westerners have is undeniably the worst. Go read some history before you make a "word in 2038" map that has no bearing on reality what so ever. Your description "possible world in 2038" is about as possible as a giant firey squid monster coming out of the core of the earth and killing everyone.

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gotofritz [2014-02-01 23:32:44 +0000 UTC]

It has absolutely no bearings on reality. 

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MikyZaurus [2014-02-01 21:48:51 +0000 UTC]

Romania splitted in two countries...WHY?

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Hug0naut [2014-02-01 12:43:26 +0000 UTC]

I live in Nome and Russia will never get their mitts on Alaska. I could see this map as alternate reality and I love it but I don't realistically see it happening. And I suspect The9988 doesn't either, just wants to see people's reactions.

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Empress-Ryzal [2014-02-01 06:21:08 +0000 UTC]

I love how these future maps always ignore the minutae of various regions...




Malaysia will NEVER allow themselves to be conquered by Indonesia.


The UK will NEVER be an empire again.


China will NEVER annex Luzon, the location of the Philippines' capital city, unless they want everything within range of the USN's missiles to be a no chinaman's land.


Pigs would sooner sprout wings and fly before the Sunni/Shia divide gets repaired and the Middle East turn into a (quasi)caliphate.


China could NEVER defeat the logistical problems of transporting a large army through the Himalayas, one that's big enough to conquer Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, and parts of India no less.


There's so much more that I think I can feel the veins on my head starting to pop, so I'll stop there.




This map is utterly ASB.


It's great for an alternate timeline with a PoD before the 1600s, though.

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znieslawiony [2014-01-31 22:30:34 +0000 UTC]

Lol Warsaw in Russia? It's never gonna happen

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Aisoleil In reply to znieslawiony [2014-02-01 00:03:38 +0000 UTC]

look closer, on this map Warsaw is on the boarder of Poland, not in Russia.

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znieslawiony In reply to Aisoleil [2014-02-01 08:37:38 +0000 UTC]

Lol, you're right 

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Ciupakabra In reply to znieslawiony [2014-01-31 23:08:35 +0000 UTC]

wasn't it already a part of it during ww1? 

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Socktart In reply to znieslawiony [2014-01-31 23:01:03 +0000 UTC]

I concur! u_u

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TSMatchsticks [2014-01-31 21:50:19 +0000 UTC]

You lost me at Mexico controlling U.S. but otherwise interesting.

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minecrafroger [2014-01-31 18:22:27 +0000 UTC]

it's like post WW3 or something.

how did Briten get controle of Aferca and North Ararica?

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AboveTheWonderland [2014-01-31 01:26:05 +0000 UTC]

Hey, what do you have against Chile): haha nice work, though

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alibabuye [2014-01-31 00:54:45 +0000 UTC]

no puerto rico in the 2038? you forgot to put the name of the island

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SleepyTea [2014-01-29 21:34:48 +0000 UTC]

Brilliant map. The majority of the map is quite believable although I'm not sure the UK would be such a great power. One thing that made me giggle was the merging of western europe into the EU and yet Switzerland staying (like they always do) neutral right at the centre of the new EU nation.

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AgentA122 [2013-11-22 20:42:41 +0000 UTC]

I thought China would be taking over the U.S. by 2038? XD

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Saint-Tepes [2013-10-13 11:26:12 +0000 UTC]

Korea has the capitali at Pyongyang ? Does that mean its a juche dictatorship? 

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thecajunone [2013-08-31 18:29:55 +0000 UTC]

Mexico will never get Louisiana. lol

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thecajunone In reply to thecajunone [2013-08-31 18:31:20 +0000 UTC]

Fun to look at though.

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thedailywulfy [2013-08-31 09:18:34 +0000 UTC]

And as always, switzerland stays independant xD

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mate888 [2013-07-16 20:09:57 +0000 UTC]

Nice map, only one question: OH, GOD WHAT HAPPENED TO ARGENTINA??

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Neonight92 In reply to mate888 [2013-12-28 04:41:20 +0000 UTC]

lo mismo me pegunto

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mate888 In reply to Neonight92 [2014-01-02 22:53:10 +0000 UTC]

Seremos colla-gringo-chino-tehuelches para entonces...

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Neonight92 In reply to mate888 [2014-01-03 11:18:05 +0000 UTC]

mientras no quemen libros a lo fahrenheit 451 todo bien(más o menos) 

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MaragrizX [2013-06-25 14:45:44 +0000 UTC]

It is a work of fiction after all. Well done map, looks very good.

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MAS-49 [2013-05-11 03:30:08 +0000 UTC]

Well at least Britian managed to cast a new set of steel balls!

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GolDragonKing [2013-04-20 14:28:56 +0000 UTC]

i find it sad that most of portugal is in control of the moors again, and that my hometown is in the marocco part

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CanadaFTW25 [2013-02-24 09:14:57 +0000 UTC]

Damn, pacific coast belongs to Russia.. better start learning Russian..

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LordDesolator777 [2013-02-09 05:20:09 +0000 UTC]

I can post this map series, if you want me to.

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LordDesolator777 [2013-02-09 05:19:27 +0000 UTC]

I re-created this map in MS Paint, and have started WWIV. America has recaptured what it lost in the prievious war, except for alaska, and they've forced mexico to dismantle its empire! Also, Yugoslavia has united southern Europe and will soon invade the EU and cripple its empire. And, because history repeats itself, russia will go the way of the Soviet Union!

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Nightbringer24 [2012-11-30 00:21:19 +0000 UTC]

Wow. Britain comes back in a major way.

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Cheetaaaaa [2012-11-19 20:19:29 +0000 UTC]

I doubt this will ever happen, but very interesting.

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Saint-Tepes [2012-10-07 13:33:26 +0000 UTC]

Let's hope not!

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Matthew-Travelmaster [2012-09-04 23:05:04 +0000 UTC]

Wow. Is Europe a Superpower here? Or just barely strong enough to hold back Russia? And why did Europe conquer so much of Africa? Is Europe a dictatorship or still democratic? Does europe have good relationships with the UK?

Sorry for so many questions.

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Parhe [2012-09-02 03:29:01 +0000 UTC]

NOOOO D:

Japan has invaded Korea T.T

How is Korea and the people of Jeju reacting to the Japanese occupation?

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cookiefur [2012-07-28 18:51:46 +0000 UTC]

How did you gather this estimate, I'm just curious...

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Jburns272 [2012-07-26 06:29:09 +0000 UTC]

What happened with the commonwealth nations (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, etc)?

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JarT988 [2012-07-23 15:59:22 +0000 UTC]

Oh, Cúcuta!

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Yinai-185 [2012-07-18 16:39:40 +0000 UTC]

Hummm United Imperial Kingdom ... I like the wound of that.

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Lemniskate [2012-07-18 14:53:17 +0000 UTC]

How has the EU colonies?

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Arminius1871 [2012-07-16 06:46:56 +0000 UTC]

Wow the european union looks like the Reich of Karl the Great! Maybe a bit bigger^^

Are there any background stories? For example, why is half of Poland russian, but not everything?
If Russia would´ve fought in a 3. world war, they would take everything I think.

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EarlofChutney [2012-07-16 00:53:59 +0000 UTC]

Very nice indeed.

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mdc01957 [2012-07-15 14:09:15 +0000 UTC]

If I may ask...WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?!

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JaySimons In reply to mdc01957 [2012-07-15 14:18:08 +0000 UTC]

Horrible world war .
Sorry for the USA.

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mdc01957 In reply to JaySimons [2012-07-15 14:35:03 +0000 UTC]

Talk about overkill.

And don't worry. I'm not American.

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JaySimons In reply to JaySimons [2012-07-15 14:18:54 +0000 UTC]

edit: Sorry for the Philippines

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AmongTheSatanic [2012-07-15 07:04:27 +0000 UTC]

Mexico.... is ridiculous.

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MaragrizX In reply to AmongTheSatanic [2013-06-25 14:46:48 +0000 UTC]

Ha! I know, as if Mexico could get its shit together.

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SolomonPiper [2012-07-15 05:23:09 +0000 UTC]

LOL, New Zealand will never cede any of their land to the UK. For one, the Maori would never allow it... just saying.

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SolomonPiper In reply to SolomonPiper [2012-07-15 05:24:40 +0000 UTC]

Oh, and... Christchurch as the capital? Have you not heard about the earthquake? -.-

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