Dataset from 1995

To study the temporal variations in Internet properties, we use the traceroute data set collected by Paxson in 1995 [26]. The data set includes traceroutes conducted between pairs of hosts drawn from a set of 33 hosts distributed across (mainly academic sites in) the U.S., Europe, South Korea, and Australia. Despite the fact that the 1995 data set contains far fewer paths than the 2000 data set, it provides an interesting data point for comparison. The 1995 data set was gathered in late 1995, about 6 months after the demise of the NSFNET backbone (which used to provide connectivity to academic sites in the U.S.) and early in the life of the commercial Internet.