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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 12:39:23 +0100 (GMT)
Welcome to the Cyber-Geography Research Bulletin. This is a regular, free,
email bulletin to inform you of changes and new additions made to the
Geography of Cyberspace Directory and the Atlas of Cyberspaces on the
Cyber-Geography Research web site. The bulletin is distributed about once
a month, depending on how much time I have available for my cyberspace
exploration.
I must apologise for delay in sending out this bulletin. I have been
caught up in non-Cyberspace work recently and Ive also been away at a
conference. It is likely that the next bulletin will be not be available
until early December because our office is being refurbished next month.
The bulletins are now going to made available in a html version as well. I have also
decided to start a new numbering system, so this bulletin is Vol. 1, No.
1 and is available at http://www.cybergeography.org/bulletin-1-1.html
I am happy to acknowledge the support of CORPEX. They are kindly
sponsoring the Cyber-Geography Research web site.
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New for the "Mapping the Internet" section :
* A couple of useful Web sites that allow you to runs traceroutes from
different locations on the global Internet. Traceroute.org (
http://www.traceroute.org/ ), lists Web traceroute servers by country; it
is maintained by Thomas Kernen. Also, try the Multiple Traceroute Gateway
( http://www.tracert.com/ ) which allows you to run several traces in one go.
New for "Internet Topology Network Maps" section :
* A nice series of ARPANET maps from the Web site for the book "Where
Wizards Stay Up Late" by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon.
( http://www.fixe.com/wizards/map.html )
New for "Some Useful References" section:
* Arnum E. & Conti S., 1998, "Internet Deployment Worldwide: The New
Superhighway Follows the Old Wires, Rails and Roads", INET'98: The
Internet Summit, 21-24th July 1998, Geneva, Switzerland.
* Dumett S., 1998, "Evolution of a Wired World: The Growth of an Undersea,
Intercontinental Network", PreText Magazine, March 1998.
( http://www.pretext.com/mar98/features/story3.htm )
New for the "Some Relevant Conferences" section:
* INET'98: The Internet Summit, 21-24th July 1998, Geneva, Switzerland.
One of the premier Internet conferences with lots of interesting papers
available in the online proceedings.
( http://www.isoc.org/inet98/proceedings )
* ISMA98: Engineering Data and Analysis, 31 August-1st September 1998, San
Diego, USA.
New for "Some Miscellaneous Bits" section:
* Lloyds satellite constellations, useful and comprehensive Web resource
on the new and planned satellite systems such as Iridium and Teledesic.
Maintained by Lloyd Wood, Centre for Communication Systems Research,
University of Surrey, UK.
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New on the "Topology Maps" page:
* Striking visualisations from Skitter, a new tool by Cooperative
Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) for large-scale collection
and analysis of Internet traffic path data. The data is mapped as dense
graphs as in the images shown. ( http://www.caida.org/Tools/Skitter/ )
New for the "Information Landscapes" page:
* A screen-shot of the Harmony Internet browser that provides 3D
information landscape visualisations of Web sites. It was developed by
Keith Andrews and colleagues at the Institute for Information Processing
and Computer Supported New Media (IICM) at Graz University of Technology.
( http://www2.iicm.edu/harmony )
New for the "Historical Maps" page:
* Two more ARPANET maps, showing the geographic topology of the network in
October 1980 and October 1989. They were scanned from an article in
Computer Communications Review (CCR), entitled "Selected ARPANET Maps",
Vol. 20, October 1990, pages 81-110. Interestingly, the 1980 map shows a
link from ARPANET to London, which was to my own institution UCL.
Please remember there is a mirror site for the Atlas of Cyberspaces
in the USA at http://www.cybergeography.com/atlas/atlas.html
(The mirror was kindly donated by TeleGeography, Inc., Washington D.C. -
http://www.telegeography.com/).
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The first publicly sent messages of new communications technology are
often recorded as historically significant markers. So we have Morses
"What hath god wrought!" in 1844 marking telegraphs emergence into the
popular imagination and Bells more prosaic "Mr Watson, come here. I want
you" in 1876 for the telephone.
In the Cyberspace age, a significant marker was the first email message, sent by Ray Tomlinson in
1971. The content of this message was not formally recorded by the press but is likely to be something
like "QWERTYIOP". See the fascinating article by Todd Campbell, in PreText
Magazine, for the full story
(http://www.pretext.com/mar98/features/story2.htm )
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Subject: Cyber-Geography Research Bulletin, Vol. 1, No. 1, 22nd Oct. 1998
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