I'm Jill Walker Rettberg, author and professor of Digital Culture at the University of Bergen in Norway. I co-direct the Center for Digital Narrative, a 10-year Norwegian Centre of Research Excellence, and I lead the ERC project Machine Vision in Everyday Life. This site started as my blog in October 2000.
I got this on email, so don’t know where it came from or who made it [update: my commenters do though, read the comments to find out], but it’s kinda cute. We’re back from the states, had a wonderful trip! Bergen is beautiful today, sunny, but rather cold.
Jeremy
it is from the online comic strip xkcd. it was last week or so.
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 😉
tormodh
This is from the brilliant creator of the webcomic XKCD. (Source is: http://xkcd.com/c256.html)
Jill
Why thank you, all! Excellent.
William Wend
I love how Usenet is basically characterized as being the internet Atlantis.
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/