IT posters to cover your empty walls
If you’re like us and have lots of empty wall space in your office you need to check out this list. We have collected a list of posters that focus on interesting information rather than nice-looking sunsets. And of course all are computer and network related.
We will definitely be ordering or printing some of these ourselves to add to the create spirit here at the office.
OS evolution over the past 60 years
Computer OS functionality and evolution, including UNIX and UNIX-like OSs and also Microsoft from DOS to Vista.
Price/availability: $19.99
Link: http://www.javvin.com/computer-operating-systems-os-map.html
Anatomy of a Linux System
Poster for O’Reilly’s Open Source Software Convention in 2001, so it’s a bit dated, but still full of information.
Price/availability: Free PDF download
Link: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/linux/news/linuxanatomy_0101.html
Windows 2008 deployment planning
Two Windows 2008 posters showing core functionality and Active Directory components.
Price/availability: Free PDF download
Link: http://www.itprosecure.com/main/blogs/windows_2008…
Linux kernel
A map of all functions and layers inside the Linux kernel.
Price/availability: $15-30
Link: http://www.linuxdriver.co.il/kernel_map_poster
Network Management Architecture and Technologies Map
Everything there is to know about network management in one poster.
Price/availability: $19.99
Link: http://www.javvin.com/networkmanagementmap.html
Network protocols
Everything there is to know about network management in one poster.
Price/availability: $19.99
Link: http://www.javvin.com/map.html
OSI Model
The poster shows the OSI model including details about each layer.
Price/availability: $19.95
Link: http://www.itposters.com/networkessentials.html
Network Architecture
The poster shows all Ethernet implementations illustrated with their IEE 802 specifications.
Price/availability: $19.95
Link: http://www.itposters.com/networkessentials.html
Internet World
Poster showing international routes and transmission capacity in 2000.
Price/availability: $29.95
Link: http://www.bitwisegifts.com/page/bg/PROD/14000/14003
CAIDA Internet Map: Edition 2
Visual “Skitter graph” of Internet connectivity generated from real data.
Price/availability: $19.95
Link: http://www.bitwisegifts.com/page/bg/PROD/14000/14007
Domain name system
Diagram explaining how DNS and domain names work and how it’s governed.
Price/availability: Free PDF download
Link: http://www.dubberly.com/maps/domain-name-system.html
Country codes
Globe with all ccTLDs and phone country codes.
Price/availability: $25-40
Link: http://www.visibone.com/countries/
Global Internet Map 2006
Global map showing the Internet’s infrastructure.
Price/availability: $225
Link: http://www.telegeography.com/products/map_internet/index.php
Web Trend Map 2008
Creative poster showing the top Internet brands in 2008.
Price/availability: $55 or free PDF download
Link: http://informationarchitects.jp/web-trend-map-3-get-it/
MySQL Charts
Set of two posters with MySQL statements and functions.
Price/availability: $20-30
Link: http://www.visibone.com/sql/#chart
MS SQL Server 2005
Poster with system views in Microsoft MS SQL server 2005.
Price/availability: free PDF download
Link: http://blogs.msdn.com/publicsector/archive/2005/12/27/507618.aspx
History of Programming Languages
A timeline plotting the evolution of over 50 programming languages.
Price/availability: free PDF download
Link: http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/news/languageposter_0504.html
Mother tongues of computer languages
Shows relations and branches of computer programming languages.
Price/availability: free hi-res PNG download
Link: http://www.digibarn.com/collections/posters/tongues/
.NET Framework 3.5 , types and namespaces
Commonly used types and namespaces in Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.
Price/availability: free PDF download
Link: http://blogs.msdn.com/pandrew/archive/2007/11/02/announcing…
Hopefully you found some nice posters for your walls. Our guess is that there are lots of other great posters out there in addition to these, so if you’ve seen any good ones let us know in the comments!
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Mac Tips
June 4th, 2008 at 11:21 am
Very immense. Some of those are really cool. Shame some of them don’t give you a more detailed view. I might have purchased a couple of them, if I could see some detail.
Keep up the good work.
Antoine
June 4th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
There is a PNG version of the the Kernel Map. It is even clickable with links to some documentation on linux.no
http://www.linuxdriver.co.il/kernel_map
John Yunker
June 4th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
I wanted to suggest one more poster for your collection: A rather unique map of the world’s ccTLDs — in which each ccTLD is sized according to the population of each country. Here is a visual: http://www.bytelevel.com/map/ccTLD.html
Thanks!
Orjan
June 5th, 2008 at 8:15 am
Web Services “standards”
http://www.innoq.com/resources/ws-standards-poster/
decasm
June 5th, 2008 at 9:54 am
Perl’s Periodic Table of the Operators
http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/code/PeriodicTable.html
Roman Romanchuk
June 5th, 2008 at 11:09 am
Great!
lumega
June 5th, 2008 at 11:59 am
very nice
Gabriel
June 5th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Your “Country codes” map has the wrong URL. You put in the same URL as the “Domain Name System.” Otherwise, nice list.
Rex
June 5th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
ZapThink’s SOA Implementation Roadmap, Free PDF Download: http://www.zapthink.com/report.html?id=ZTS-GI103
Royal Pingdom
June 5th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Gabriel, thanks for the catch. Fixed now.
Binny V A
June 6th, 2008 at 2:16 am
Great list. I really like the ‘Anatomy of a Linux System’ poster. Now if only I could find some free space on my walls…
Micaman
June 6th, 2008 at 6:30 am
Nice post! Thanks
James J
June 7th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
As a recent purchaser of Adobe Flex Builder 3, I was sent four free posters with cool ActionScript 3 Class Diagrams and Flex 3 Classes (core to advanced)… these posters look awesome and I am going to have them framed =)
If you develop or are interested in developing in AS / Flex, you can get the posters in PDF format for free and have them printed if you like.. good stuff! (Otherwise for the high-quality prints I think you have to purchase Flex Builder 3).
Here is the link for the free PDFs
http://flex.org/posters/
rubayeet
June 8th, 2008 at 6:03 am
My company has a large size Murphy’s Law Poster in the conference room.
Cheers
Tice
June 9th, 2008 at 9:44 am
For math-geeks there’s some stuff here (like prime number posters):
http://www.perfsci.com/souvenirs.htm
Ron
June 9th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
The maps and cheat sheets here are excellent to have. Here are some other resources worth noting…
- Expert Webmasters seo cheatsheet – A complete, all-in-one cheat sheet on search engine optimization. It not only covers page optimization techniques but other critical areas of the seo process like keyword analysis, competitive analysis, site analysis, search engine submissions, linking strategies and reporting and analysis. Beginners and experts will find this useful. $20 (www.expert-webmasters.com/seo-cheatsheet.asp)
- Visibone web cheat sheets – Complete, all-in-one references on HTML, CSS, JS, DOM, PHP and MySQL. If you already know your stuff but want a reference guide to quickly look up specific details then these are for you. $10-$40 (www.visibone.com)
- The IStudios – Various cheatsheets from programming and office products to operating systems. Definitely worth taking a look at since they have so many. $5-$20 (http://www.learnandthrive.com/)
Ron
June 9th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Here are the clickable links to the above post…
http://www.expert-webmasters.com/seo-cheatsheet.asp
http://www.visibone.com/
http://www.learnandthrive.com/
winnie
June 10th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
So all these people put down so much work to MAKE a great OS for FREE, from scratch, and i have to pay for some idiot who made a poster describing it?
Constantine
September 5th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Interactive map and poster of GNU/Linux OS and FOSS:
http://www.makelinux.net/system/
Linux
April 19th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Wow, this is the best list of Linux posters I’ve found yet.
Travis
September 6th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
Lol, as bad as it sounds, being an IT major, I’d actually seriously consider buying some of these! I especially dig the linux kernel map there.
Giovanni
September 26th, 2009 at 3:44 am
Thank you, my wall is happy now!
Justin
December 4th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Nice list, a few of these will go on my new shop walls. Thanks!