The image on the left (in my post above) is a 'map' of internet connections.
The middle one is a 'synthetic' (computer-created) galaxy.
The one on the right is a 'flu virus.
What's fascinating is the way the internet mirrors our brain patterns, as if we are recreating an image of our own brains - a vast explosion of human consciousness, for good and bad - in cyberspace. So that might explain your fascination, Namorvia.
The writer William Gibson invented the term cyberspace and visualised the internet before it came to be, in his 1984 novel
Neuromancer - I too loved the idea of cyberspace as a 3-D experience with data formed into a vast 'city'. So I just took it a stage further and imagined it as a ruined city abandoned in cyberspace by a lost world....
The image on the left (below) is of blogosphere connections:
"The visual study featured here by Matthew Hurst reflects a plot of the most active and interconnected parts of the blogosphere from collected link data over a period of six weeks. Green links represent one-way links (that is, blog A links to blog B), and blue links indicate reciprocal links (blog B returns the favor).
1 - On the map, white dots represent individual blogs, sized according to number of links. This one in particular represents DailyKos which is visited by 500,000 people every day.
2 - The popular site Boingboing, a "Directory of Wonderful Things".
3 - LiveJournal users (an isolated, close-knit online community of bloggers).
4 - The blue blob represents a balanced sociopolitical discourse (most links are reciprocal).
5 - An outlying island of blue represents the linked-up world of bloggers who traffic in the latest news and gossip from the world of pornography.
6 - A group of sports enthusiasts in the outskirts, many of whom, unlike the lonely pornographers, have links back to the central hot spot of the blogosphere."
And the image on the right (below) represents the electronic connections of the human brain:
Technology Review: A Working Brain Model Google Image Result for http://www.brown.edu/Research/dichtung-digital/2004/1/Ryan/ryan-space_files/image002.jpg
Stunning!