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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Bobbie Johnson, technology correspondent

How peer-to-peer makes the net better

MIT's Technology Review ran an article this week about mapping the internet - by friend of Techblog and fellow Brightonian Duncan Graham-Rowe.

It follows some research done to work out how the internet is organised that's being done by researchers at Bar Ilan University. What they've found is interesting - and, when represented graphically, pretty astounding.

Credit: Lanet-vi program of I. Alvarez-Hamelin et al.

In the centre are the crucial nodes that connect to everything, and on the outside the bits that don't connect to much. There's also a mantle of nodes connected to each other.

Some think it's "gorgeous", while others say it's art. One blogger /body>

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