The Internet in Real Time

We once discussed in class that we create as much information every two days as we did from the beginning of time until 2006. It's a hard statistic to process, the numbers and amounts of information are so vast that trying to imagine it is all but impossible.

If you would like to see a small part of that information being created however, then you should head over to The Internet in Real Time. The header image for this post is a screenshot of the page, and each of those tiles is updating in real time as you watch along with a statistic of how many gigabytes of data has transferred over the Internet as you watched. The number may not look so big considering it's the whole Internet, but remember that only 1000 gigabytes makes a terabyte, 1000 terabytes makes a petabyte, and 1000 of those makes an exobyte! When you think about it that way, that number is pretty big.

So click over, and be amazed!