What does the internet look like?

Digital mapping is a personal interest. I recently saw a fantastic representation of the internet as a three-dimensional globe with arcs representing connections between networks. I'm still looking for that particular image, but there's a suitable likeness below.

In the beginning, there was a single node Arpanet at UCLA (September 2, 1969):



Here's a re-colored cyberspace map published in Wired, from research done by Bill Cheswick and Hal Burch. I colored the background black on their recommendation. This tree diagram shows traceroute paths linking networks around the internet:



Global internet connections, mapped as arcs, created from research directed by Stephen Eick: