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\n<\/p>\n\nThe internet is vast. Bigger than a city, bigger than a country, maybe as big as the universe. It’s expanding by the second. No one has seen its borders.\n<\/p>\n
\nAnd the internet is intangible, like spirits and angels. The web is an immense ghost land of disembodied places. Who knows if you are even there, there.\n<\/p>\n
\nYet everyday we navigate through this ethereal realm for hours on end and return alive. We must have some map in our head.\n<\/p>\n
\nI’ve become very curious about the maps people have in their minds when they enter the internet. So I’ve been asking people to draw me a map of the internet as they see it. That’s all. More than 50 people of all ages and levels of expertise have mapped their geography of online. Here are three:\n<\/p>\n
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\nYou can see them all here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n \nI’d love to have more folk maps of the internet. You can download a blank PDF here<\/a> and email it to me when done.\n<\/p>\n \nThis folk cartography might be useful for some semiotician or anthropologist.\n<\/p>\n \nIn fact I’ll post the best taxonomies and interpretations of these maps submitted to me via comments or email.\n<\/p>\n UPDATE: A quick-thinking professor in Buenos Aires has extracted an emergent taxonomy from this first set of maps, as explained here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The internet is vast. Bigger than a city, bigger than a country, maybe as big as the universe. It’s expanding by the second. No one has seen its borders. And the internet is intangible, like spirits and angels. The web … Continue reading