How to Explain the Internet to a 19th-Century Street Urchin

Do you know how the internet really works -- how you're able to read this article on a magical glowing rectangle attached to a keyboard?

This cheat sheet created by flowchart guru Doogie Horner  explain the inner workings of the web to someone even less informed.

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The incredible growth of the Internet since 2000

It doesn’t feel like 2000 was all that long ago, does it? But on the Internet, a decade is a long time. Ten years ago we were in the era of the dot-com boom (and bust), the Web was strictly 1.0, and Google was just a baby.

pingdom.com has published an in-depth study of how the number of Internet users has grown in the past decade.

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Weave Data: How to Analyze Your Personal Internet Traffic?

We all use twitter, write emails, skype and blog all day long. There isn’t a single day we are not going to visit websites like google, youtube, the website of our favorite newspaper or social network and browse through the web. Despite that, or actually because of it, everybody tends to use the web in a different manner.

To visualize this fact and the traces we leave on our journey through the internet and to reveal some of the hidden patterns of our everyday online life, weave magazine asked onformative to create a data visualization of the online activity of several interaction designers, artists and developers.

By analyzing your personal internet traffic logfile using the custom written software you get a distinctive and unique visualization of your online activities.

Collecting the Data : Download LogTool
Analyzing & Visualizing : Download Visualization Sourcecode
How to do - tutorial: Weave Data Tutorial

How Google dominates the Web

Google began strictly as a search company, and it’s still their bread and butter. However, as the company has grown, it’s spread its tentacles like a giant octopus out to most parts of the Web. A benevolent giant octopus, providing lots of highly useful services, but a giant nonetheless. Try surfing the Web without touching a single Google service. It’s impossible.

How Google dominates the Web?

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The World of Data We're Creating on the Internet

In the 21 century, we live a large part of our lives online. Almost everything we do is reduced to bits and sent through cables around the world at light speed. But just how much data are we generating? This is a look at just some of the massive amounts of information that human beings create every day.

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Digital Life

Utilising cutting edge techniques and taking advantage of market-leading expertise, Digital Life offers both a lens on the digital world and the frameworks required to make actionable business decisions within it. It can be used to drive global strategies or inform local tactics.

The interactive data dashboard allows users to compare pairs of countries with each other, in attributes such as Internet penetration, digital lifestyles and daily activities, etc.

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The Internet Is Still Not For Everyone

It radically changed the way we all interact and it has become the main medium of mass communication of our (if not all) time. Nevertheless it is used by just a few. How and why the Internet is still a technology available to less than 29% of the global population.
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