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by sevenseventen 812 days ago
Mapping the internet as a whole has been a thing for quite a while, going back to Kumar et al in 2000. https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...

I recall at least one of those papers characterizing the shape as resembling a bow-tie.

This and other early contributions were looking at the link structure of the internet, not textual similarity, though.