Aram Pan, a photographer from Singapore, has been traveling through North Korea and recording the encounter with a 360-degree video camera as a portion of his DPRK 360 endeavor–an effort to provide the external world a better concept. But before this month, he snapped a picture that emphasizes an aspect of North Korean life that just roaming round the nation would not have shown. You do not want a search engine to locate sites in North Korea, seemingly–because they all fit on a poster.

Seemingly, no Domain Name Service is called for in the DPRK. Instead, their private IP addresses list all these websites on the nation ‘s private intranet. In many pictures of North Koreans using computers in libraries and schools, the addresses in browser windows use numeric IP addresses.

This could be because present DNS servers in North Korea do not support the Unicode domain names that would enable users to sort them in Korean. “If you do not have have much experience with the roman alphabet and a computer keyboard, typing a short sequence of numbers is likely simpler,” Williams noted.

A fast scan of the addresses on the poster shows that private IP address spaces–parts of the range of potential Internet addresses allowed to be used on internal networks are used by each of the websites. The websites seem to be mostly for educational institutions, research centers and government organizations. It seems a great deal such as the Internet that is global did around 1992.