The pixel font used in the film is "Perfect DOS VGA 437" by Zeh Fernando.
The narrator in Traceroute's trailer is actor Jeff Ricketts, one of Johannes Grenzfurthner's long-term collaborators.
Traceroute's first screening in the Bay Area took place at 'Diamond In The Rough Film Festival' at the Bluelight Cinemas in Cupertino, right across the street from Apple and the Flint Center where Steve Jobs debuted the Macintosh.
Director Johannes Grenzfurthner uses Pachelbel's Canon in D at least once in each of his feature films. He directly refers to this tradition in the opening lines of "Traceroute" and explains the history behind it.
The 8-bit title sequence song is called "Crush Oberzoegersdorf" and was created by LFO DEMON for Johannes Grenzfurthner's computer game "Soviet Unterzoegersdorf: Sector 2".