# Awesome ole' timey map of the internet **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 1, 2014, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-ole-timey-map-of-the-internet/680259 "2014-02-01T03:57:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-ole-timey-map-of-the-internet/680259/1 "2014-02-01T03:57:44Z")
Don’t know if this has already been posted, but [check out this really amazing Rand-McNally style map of the internet!](http://www.foxnews.com/tech/interactive/2014/01/31/where-do-live-on-this-map-internet/) ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-ole-timey-map-of-the-internet/680259/2 "2014-02-01T04:09:40Z")
**Moderator Action** Cool map, but I don’t see a question here. Moving thread from General Questions to Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share (MPSIMS). ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-ole-timey-map-of-the-internet/680259/3 "2014-02-01T15:27:20Z")
Didn’t they just gussy up an XKCD comic? [OK, yeah, kinda](http://xkcd.com/802/) ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-ole-timey-map-of-the-internet/680259/4 "2014-02-01T15:37:40Z")
So, Pornistan is the entire other side, I guess? ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-ole-timey-map-of-the-internet/680259/5 "2014-02-01T15:51:46Z")
They are missing WoW - which is sort of amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-ole-timey-map-of-the-internet/680259/6 "2014-02-01T15:57:22Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > Didn’t they just gussy up an XKCD comic? > > [OK, yeah, kinda](http://xkcd.com/802/) In the linked article, the artist gives credit to XKCD for the idea. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-ole-timey-map-of-the-internet/680259/7 "2014-02-01T16:37:54Z")
> [@Dangerosa](#): > > They are missing WoW - which is sort of amazing. Nope. WoW is there…west side of the western continent, north of the Pirate Sea. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-ole-timey-map-of-the-internet/680259/8 "2014-02-01T16:46:18Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > In the linked article, the artist gives credit to XKCD for the idea. The map itself gives “credit” to XKCD (in a ‘damned with faint praise’ sense) although it’s in tiny print on the bottom. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-ole-timey-map-of-the-internet/680259/9 "2014-02-04T06:19:14Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > The map itself gives “credit” to XKCD (in a ‘damned with faint praise’ sense) although it’s in tiny print on the bottom. He may have gotten the idea from XKCD but his map is much, \*much \*more detailed. If you notice too, the continental mass on the right represents the ‘old world’ (i.e. Europe) of hardware/software makers (with the ‘Incompatibility Mts.’ separating MS & Apple), while the ‘new world’ (the Americas) on the left is all virtual entities (web sites) with ‘Pornlandia’ occupying the entire southern continent, tenuously linked to the legit North by the ‘dating sites’ land-bridge! Plus the really ancient stuff makes up the Great Southern Land (i.e. Antarctica). ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-ole-timey-map-of-the-internet/680259/10 "2014-02-04T08:07:41Z")
[Here is a zoomable version of the same map](http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/01/30/deviantart_internet_map_what_the_world_would_look_like_if_apple_google_were.html), so you can actually, like, read the labels. > [@DCnDC](#): > > So, Pornistan is the entire other side, I guess? No. Porn sites make up most of the continent to the lower left, above the part marked “Internet Crime”. ---
**Author:** ![Sofis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Sofis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofis)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-ole-timey-map-of-the-internet/680259/11 "2014-02-04T10:27:43Z")
There’s a bunch of binary down next to the little map of most prevalent social networks, right below the cheaty magic square. Given that each byte starts with a zero, it’s almost certainly a bunch of ASCII encoded text, but I don’t feel like translating it… 🙂