Preface

Acknowledgement

Chapter 1 : Mapping cyberspace

Issues to consider when viewing images

Structure of the book

Final words

Chapter 2: Mapping Infrastructure and Traffic

Historical maps of telecommunications

Maps from the birth of the Net

Mapping where the wires, fibre-optic cables and satellites really are

Infrastructure census maps

Domain name maps

Marketing maps of Internet service providers

Interactive mapping of networks

Visualising network topologies in abstract space (shown in the page spread below)

[This page spread shows 3D hyperbolic views of Internet topology created by Walrus tool being developed by Young Hyun at CAIDA.]

The geography of data flows (shown in the page spread below)

[This page spread shows VR visualisation of Web traffic as virtual skyscrapers. It was created by Stephen E. Lamm, Daniel A. Reed and Will H. Scullin.]

Mapping traceroutes

What's the Net 'weather' like today?

Mapping cyberspace usage in temporal space

Chapter 3: Mapping the Web

Information spaces of the Internet

The beginning of the Web

Mapping individual websites

Mapping tools to manage websites

Mapping website evolution

Mapping paths and traffic through a website

'The view from above': 2D visualisation and navigation of the Web

'The view from within': 3D visualisation and navigation of the Web (shown in the two page spreads below)

[This page spread presents images of WebPath, a 3D Web history and navigation tool developed by Emmanuel Frécon and Gareth Smith.]

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