hobbyist hacker yield interesting results

in pinging the internet. http://www.technologyreview.com/news/514066/what-happened-when-one-man-pinged-the-whole-internet/

Internet archives

preserved at http://archive.org/index.php
also another site devoted to preserving internet history

http://internetmemory.org/en/

An interesting visual of the internet   http://www.onlineschools.org/blog/how-the-internet-works/internet_infographic.jpg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8552410.stm
See how the internet has grown worldwide....move the slider along the bottom