This Illegally Made, Incredibly Mesmerizing Animated GIF Is What the Internet Looks Like
You are looking at, more or less, a portrait of the internet over an average 24 hours in 2012—higher usage in yellows and reds; lower in greens and blues—created by an anonymous researcher for the "Internet Census 2012" project.
How, exactly, do you gather this much data? Well: not legally, that's for sure. In order to track the geographical location and usage patterns of nearly half a million internet users, our researcher created a "botnet"—a network of hundreds of thousands of hacked computers reporting back to him (or her)....MORE
