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Peacock Maps published a poster titled "The Whole Internet" with data collected in 1999. I think they had a second one in the early 2000s. This was the best I could find: https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~3...

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They did at least 4… 1999 - 2002. In the 2002 one, they changed the color scheme which made it visually jarring when put next to the previous 3, so I didn’t keep that one.

The other 3 I had framed, and they have followed me everywhere I have lived ever since. Even non-technical people stop and enjoy them for a moment and say “wow, the Internet is huge” or something to that effect… and then they notice that they’re only seeing what it was a quarter century ago.

So cool! I didn’t realize there was an earlier version. I still have “The Internet: 01.01.00” (from Jan 1, 2000) with black background hanging on my wall.

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