The timeline of watching internet porn.
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Above go on the the charts, here are some observations about the Internet in Europe:
- There are 475 million Internet users in Europe (worldwide total is 1.97 billion).
- Europe has 24.2% of the world’s Internet users.
- Europe as a whole has almost twice as many Internet users as the United States.
- The country with the most Internet users in Europe is Germany, with 65 million.
- The country with the fewest number of Internet users in Europe is the Vatican City State, with a whopping 93 Internet users (and a total population of 829).
- Ten European countries have more than 10 million Internet users.
- The average Internet penetration across Europe is 58.4%.
- The country with the highest Internet penetration in Europe is Iceland, with 97.6%, followed by Norway (94.8%), and Sweden (92.5%). Those are the only three European countries with more than 90% Internet penetration. (For comparison, the United States has an Internet penetration of 77.3%.)
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So you want to procrastinate on the Internet? For The McGill Tribune, 14 September 2010.
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This is a visualization of the network packets of a YouTube video, slowed down 12 times. You can clearly see the handshake, some odd client/server negotiation, and the full ramp-up.
Created using Packet Flight: github.com/aristus/packet-flight Each flying circle represents a network packet. The small green ones are control packets: ACK, SYN, etc. The larger blue ones are data packets. The data is from a real tcpdump of the first 4 seconds of Rick Astley's music video.
How does our output of digital (and decidedly less tasty) tomatoes compare with our worldwide production of real tomatoes? And perhaps most importantly, who are these casual croppers, and are they anything like their plow-toting counterparts?
mashable.com broke it down by the numbers and put some of these FarmVille trends in perspective for you.via mashable.com
An infographic presents "all the facts" you ever wanted to know about Internet memes and the sites that host them.
For those who don't know, a "meme" is a cultural idea that "self-replicates and spreads among the people." An online meme can take the form of a video, a catchphrase, a website, a joke, an image, or a parody.The infographic includes an epic mix of some of the funniest, most popular memes in Internet history. Ever wondered about the origins of the Dancing Baby or the Dancing Hamster? Wonder no more!
During the last week of July, AVG researchers compiled a list of virus and malware attacks by country picked up by AVG security software. This means we have compiled data from over 127 million computers in 144 countries to determine the incidence rates of virus attacks by country.
via thompson.blog.avg.com
Net neutrality has taken up a lot of headline space over the last two weeks. There was the Goggle and Verizon thing, and then something happened with the FCC and some Congress members, and the French may have been involved somehow... Admit it, your eyes are glazing over aren't they?
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Given the recent closing of Google Wave and Eric Schmidt's celebration of their failures; take a look at some of Google’s other flops and failures that were pretty much DOA.
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