Finding your way around the internet
June 20, 2008 Posted by Kevin in : Bristol , trackbackWherever you are, if you don’t have a map, there’s a chance you’ll get lost. This chance increases exponentially in more complex environments. With approximately one hundred million websites scattered around the virtual globe it doesn’t come much more complex than the internet. Information Architects in Japan have organised 300 of the most prominent websites into a structured map based on the Tokyo Underground layout. Only another 999,999,700 websites to squeeze in…..
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Looks useful. It must have taken ages doing the image map and inserting the links though.
It also reminds me of xkcd's map of online communities that appeared in spring 2007. I wonder if the latter was an inspiration…