Daniel Hanold

I always thought that most of the bits and bytes flying around the world would be transmitted through satellites, but I'm sadly mistaken.

The vast majority of the worlds communication is carried by cables in the ocean. The first cable was the TAT-1, which connected North America with Europe in 1958 with a capacity of 640000 bytes per second. Until today, that bandwidth grew to an amazing 7.1 terabytes per second. One terabyte is 1 099 511 627 776 bytes. So..a lot!

Interestingly enough, there are incidents where ships or landslides under the ocean cut one of the cables. In 2006, a landslide disabled Internet access in Taiwan for weeks. Now THAT would be a big problem for me.

Comscore just released a report announcing that the global population online surpassed 1 billion people, with China as the country with the highest online adoption (in absolute numbers). Of course, I'm a little proud that Germany is number four (after China, the US and Japan). Go Internet!

History of the Internet from PICOL on Vimeo.

"History of the Internet" is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet.
The history is told using the PICOL icons on www.picol.org , which are available for download soon. On http://blog.picol.org you can get news about this project.

You can see the credits for this movie on
http://www.lonja.de/motion/mo_history_internet.html

Other works done by me can be seen on
http://www.lonja.de or http://www.lonja.de/diploma