6 thoughts on “map of online communities

  1. Jeremy

    it is from the online comic strip xkcd. it was last week or so.

  2. Tore

    Hey there, Jill. The ¸bermap comes from xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe, and was featured on Boing-Boing about a week ago or so. Consider the map properly referenced 😉

  3. tormodh

    This is from the brilliant creator of the webcomic XKCD. (Source is: http://xkcd.com/c256.html)

  4. Jill

    Why thank you, all! Excellent.

  5. William Wend

    I love how Usenet is basically characterized as being the internet Atlantis.

  6. Esther

    People have also started adding their own versions to the ‘unmapped’ sections, for example this one from MMOG Nation:

    http://www.mmognation.com/2007/05/02/mmog-map/

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