The internet is a physical thing. It runs along five hundred and seventy cables on the seafloor, through a few thousand peering rooms, and across the speed of light — which, as it turns out, is barely fast enough. These instruments draw the network as it really is: a planet-scale graph that pulses with route announcements and aches with distance.
Every submarine internet cable on a glowing 3D Earth, lit by live BGP route announcements from RIPE RIS Live — each light packet is a real route update flowing through the wires beneath the ocean.
Type a hostname and watch an approximate path through the internet animate hop-by-hop on a 3D globe — each hop timed and geolocated, with latency bars and ISP labels.
Your browser pings public endpoints around the world and draws arcs to each, thickness and colour by round-trip time. The speed of light, made viscerally measurable.
Every internet exchange point on a 3D Earth — vertical extrusions whose height encodes member count, coloured by region. The internet's heartbeats made visible.
The global internet's autonomous systems as a 3-D force-directed cosmos — nodes sized by customer-cone, colored by country, edges from observed BGP peering relationships.