Complete Internet census taken -- perhaps the first since 1982

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Each square on the map represents all the Internet addresses wth the same number in dotted-decimal notation. Each pixel represents the average result from 65536 (2 to the 16th) addresses. Credit: USC Information Sciences Institute
Each square on the map represents all the Internet addresses wth the same number in dotted-decimal notation. Each pixel represents the average result from 65,536 (2 to the 16th) addresses. Credit: USC Information Sciences Institute

Researchers at the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, one of the birthplaces of the Internet decades ago, have just completed and plotted a comprehensive census of all of the more 2.8 million allocated addresses on the Internet -- the first complete effort of its kind in more than two decades, they say.


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