Great visual about the history of the internet that shows the progressive changes that  have happened to the technology that now shapes the majority of our lives and how we spend most of our time.

Individual stats like Facebook passing the 400 million user mark, Twitter hitting 50 million tweets per day, and YouTube viewers watching 1 billion videos per day are impressive on their own, but what if we looked at Internet-related stats collectively? Jesse Thomas did just that in his video State of the Internet.

The video — created and animated by Thomas with data from multiple sources — highlights some remarkable figures and visually depicts the Internet as we know it today. It’s a must-watch video for anyone trying to wrap their minds around just how immersed web technologies have become in our everyday lives.

(Via Mashable.)

Here’s a short video that show’s that you may not be so special, as there as so many  other things going on in the world that you didn’t know

Launched just last week, Google’s Internet Bus aims to educate Indian people about what the Internet is and how it can benefit them in multiple ways.

The moment when the Internet passed 1 million users is veiled in history.  The truth is, whenever it happened, no one was counting—or even had the means to do so. But according to the “Internet Growth Survey” from MIT, there were 1 million hosts (defined as either a computer or IP address) in 1995.  Read full article here.