The Internet: 1997 - 2021 Full Length

The Internet is one of humanity's most important creations. This video takes you through a journey of incredible engineering. Starting from the first routing table captures (provided by the University of Oregon's RouteViews project) in 1997, we walk through the first Internet's astonishing growth to 2021.

The dominant network names on the lower-left corner are updated as mergers, acquisitions, and brand changes happen.

Key:
White = Backbone
Blue = North America
Red = Asia Pacific
Yellow = Africa
Green = Europe

Code: Barrett Lyon
Music: Billy Mendrix
Editing: Pablo Gonzalez Vargas

[bunghoIio]

How does this have only 38 thousand views right now, this is one of most insane data visualizations I’ve ever seen.

[onedata]

Удивительно и красиво. Очень красиво. И очень интересно

[spastischelastisch]

Instant+1 subscriber!
Love your work.

[lasinhouseinthetrees]

Question: Have you had this looked at in terms of it being alive. Like could you tell us what each growth is and the behaviour of everything. The "Balls" seem to swallow up smaller onese and then get sent to the center, then sowly desitigrate back into smaller onse and repeat do you have names for all the little bits too? Like what's the anatomy of this thing?

[fnckol]

Brain the global human network. The brain is part of our body. We have connected wireless through Space. Space grows each second. Internet in our blood. The greatest condition for each of us is when ping 0. Great job, man.

[deaddegenerategeneration]

I need to know what that little extra dark internet space is at the bottom of it.

[numan]

BEHOLD... YE THE WATCHER! THIS IS YOU AND ALL THAT YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS REFLECTS BACK TO ITSELF!

[ayasugihada]

Hi Barrett. Could you elaborate on what the source data are for an interested layperson? The strength of the connection between nodes is not graphed, right? Is the growth we see in the nodes cubic as depicted by the spheres or is it somehow scaled as well (logarithm)? Thanks a ton!

[CristalMediumBlue]

No other biological organism has been as complex and interconnected as human civilization in the 21st Century.
Thanks for sharing!

[zork]

Humanity's greatest resource is sadly being used against itself.

[luvmore]

I can see the changes in the number of IPs from a macro perspective, but how can I see the precise number changes? I look forward to your answer，thanks!

[PhlpsTv]

my mind is hacked after i hacked whole in internet

[rogerc]

Technically a network diagram, rather than a nice graph.

[natechenheng]

It’s like an artificial universe.. possibly the beginning of the matrix?

[dontdoitlikethis]

Information Age:
First a dandelion puff,
Now a mushroom cloud.

[dragonixias]

incredible how mass religion and new millenium in mind, give almost instant boost for information.

[bochan]

+00 for your doing but it is not just final spot, maybe plus three zeroes..&101

you can believe or no, but. sic! two, maybe four-five minutes ago i found out the keybord hot-key "ctrl+Y" in addon to "ctrl+z" which i use whlo life very accurately because of not knowing)

knowledge - light, you are - Bright! Big Thanks.

Благодарю от всего своего сердца, легко, без лестницы до солнца. 101

p.s. when have 7 minutes can listen my acapella choir humour song ive made in 2012, Vernalis "попса навсегда". It is joke of about our not very good quality of pop music time of nineteeth, its actuall still better i do think.)

[bkuerbis]

Very cool! But why color by region? It's a global inter-network! By AS (maybe top 2000) would make more sense, maybe highlight changes.

[oleksiyt]

Could you say what exactly music was used?

[johntheblonde]

God, look at how centralised its getting. I fear we're heading towards a path where everything is dominated by douchebags like Google or Amazon. I also fear how AI will change this system.