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31st Aug 2014

Pic: This map of everything connected to the internet at one time is amazing

The map was created by self-described internet cartographer John Matherly.

Tony Cuddihy

The map was created by self-described internet cartographer John Matherly.

Matherly is the founder of tech company Shodan, and he put the map together at midnight (Central European Summer Time) on August 2nd by pinging all the IP addresses of devices online at that time.

The result is stunning, with the colours dictating how many devices are connected to the internet in a given area.

Red means many devices, while white and blue mean just a few.

Lone dots are hard to make out, although one Reddit user found one in Greenland, the NOAA Station in Summit.

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