The last twenty years of the Internet, summed up in one chart

A couple of weeks back, I linked to a chart which I said encompassed half of human history. I’ve now stumbled upon its counterpart for the history of the Internet. This chart from Wired Magazine ( “The Web is Dead, Long Live the Internet”), dated August 2010, sums up the last 20 years in the evolution of online traffic: from the days of FTP and newsgroups, through the rise of the Web, and now the boom of video traffic. Worth a look, even if its title is rather melodramatic.

The missing half of the picture is the absolute amount of data that each medium represents. I’ll keep an eye out for a chart that would represent that…