Around 1998 I came across the scripts Heiko W. Rupp had been working on,
something similar to the former "Usenet Maps" by Brian Reid. Heiko was
generating Postscript files, plotting the links between newsservers somewhat
geographically.
Heikos old programs are be still
available
via the
NNWG
pages at Switch.
My intention was to plot graphs of article propagation between
newsservers on "real" maps -- some early examples from 1998 are still availabe:
