Mapping is an age old endeavour. We map our world, we map our minds, and now a team has mapped the internet in a very original way.

Ruslan Enikeev created this Internet Map featuring over 350,000 websites and two million links from 196 countries. Each country is color-coded and he rates the size of a website by the amount of traffic receives and how frequently surfers jump for one website to another.

For example, Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Live.com have the biggest circles and are featured prominently. Around each site are a great number of satellite sites and some do take quite a bit of zooming to view. Each circle is clickable, revealing the URL of the selected object.

Internet-Map.net is a great resources for understanding the web, how it works, how sites are linked and the relative importance of each domain. It’s also a great way to discover new sites!