Milestones of the Internet

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The communication goal is to outline all the important milestones in the history of the Internet since 1945 to the present day. This data cum information visualization focuses on the milestones that led to the establishment of the Internet as we know it today, from its inception as an idea in the 1940s until the early 21st Century. The varied and complex social and technological transformations we witness today have their roots in the way the Internet has been developed.

Breakdown of the Milestones

The milestones of Internet is classified under 4 different major categories, which are Technology/Product/Company/Events and highlighted by 4 different colors accordingly. These milestones are well connected to their countries/regions of origin. All of these categories horizontally follow the basic timeline from 1945-2019 and has been simplified, and according to the density of milestones, the timeline has further divided by every single year to widely distribute the important milestones occurred throughout the time. Also, from the web generation perspective, the timeline has been classified as Web 1.0/Web 2.0 and Web 3.0.

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The picture is a screenshot of three parts, showing how to read the x-axis and y-axis.



Assistant marks

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The grey line showing the connections between milestones

Mark the year of everything with the shape of the flag, referring to the meaning of the milestone.Logos and national flags are used to help find and understand information. Here, we can see the logo of each big company and the country of each event, which is helpful for people to better understand the information. We also used gray lines to connect related content.

Here, we can see different products and their timelines in the history of Google, as well as the company’s earliest logo.

The Internet Big Picture : Internet Users Statistics

In addition to the top-down milestone type, it also recorded the number of Internet users.

The change in the number of Internet users is also a milestone. It recorded changes in the number of Internet users worldwide from 1995 to 2019, and listed the number of people in some key years.

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In 2014, the number of Internet users exceeded 3000 million

Datasets

Millstones of the Internet
History of the Internet
Internet Users