Periodic Table of the Internet

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Periodic Table of the Internet

by Brad Linder Jul 17th 2007

Wellington Grey has created a graphic representing some of the internet's most popular sites in a familiar layout. Most of the usual suspects are included, such as Skype, Digg, and Google.

While the web services aren't grouped into the usual solid, liquid, gas, and synthetic categories, you do have search engines, internet tools, site ranking, aggregators, webcomics, productivity and so on.

Of course, any attempt to actually index the internet so that you can see the whole thing on one page is bound to fail. There are thousands of sites you may visit every day that aren't included. But it's fun to look at.

What are your favorite attempts to graphically represent the web?

[via Neatorama]

Tags: periodic table, PeriodicTable, wellington grey, WellingtonGrey

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

iamhoff said 5:26PM on 7-17-2007

XKCD ftw!!

Nico said 6:15PM on 7-17-2007

Check out Lisa Jevbratt’s 1:1 project, “a project created in 1999 that consisted of a database that would eventually contain the address of every Web site in the world and interfaces through which to view and use the database.”
Info here: http://jevbratt.com/1_to_1/
Graphical representation here: http://128.111.69.4/~jevbratt/1_to_1/interface_ii/2/index_f.html

Aidan Henry said 5:52AM on 7-18-2007

Is there any moral to this story or just a cool graphic?

Cheers,
Aidan
www.MappingTheWeb.com

Wolfwood said 7:06AM on 7-18-2007

XKCD ftw indeed!

Jack said 8:36AM on 7-18-2007

Actually, many inaccuracies.
First of all, Cnn.com and NYTimes.com are inert and NOBLE gas?!? Hardly - They are the most active instigators in the political realm of the internet. (represented as Neon and Argon - Ne Ar)
Google and Homestarrunner.com are very likely compounds. I think not. (Represented as Litium and Fluorine - respectively - LiF)
MySpace (or Facebook) and ThisLife.org - I dont see this as a very likely compound. However CO2 and SiO2 are very readily forming compounds in nature.
So overall, this is a bit off and probably not a good way to represent the internet.

Matt Jones said 8:41AM on 7-18-2007

Nice that's really original!
http://bloggingfingers.com

Anton said 11:08AM on 7-18-2007

Check this out:
-200 Most Successful Websites Overview-Map of the Web Trends for 2007
link:
http://novini.wordpress.com/2007/07/09/%d0%9a%d0%b0%d1%80%d1%82%d0%b0-%d0%bd%d0%b0-200-%d1%82%d0%b5-%d0%bd%d0%b0%d0%b9-%d1%83%d1%81%d0%bf%d0%b5%d1%88%d0%bd%d0%b8-%d1%83%d0%b5%d0%b1-%d1%81%d1%82%d1%80%d0%b0%d0%bd%d0%b8%d1%86%d0%b8-%d0%b7/
-GNU/ Linux distro timeline
link: http://novini.wordpress.com/2007/07/15/%d0%98%d1%81%d1%82%d0%be%d1%80%d0%b8%d1%8f%d1%82%d0%b0-%d0%bd%d0%b0-gnulinux-%d1%81%d0%bd%d0%b8%d0%bc%d0%ba%d0%b0/

Anton said 2:54PM on 7-18-2007

Visit also:
The history of the computer languages,
UNIX and Windows.
Follow the link below: http://novini.wordpress.com/2007/07/18/%d0%98%d1%81%d1%82%d0%be%d1%80%d0%b8%d1%8f%d1%82%d0%b0-%d0%bd%d0%b0-%d0%ba%d0%be%d0%bc%d0%bf%d1%8e%d1%82%d1%8a%d1%80%d0%bd%d0%b8%d1%82%d0%b5-%d0%b5%d0%b7%d0%b8%d1%86%d0%b8-unix-%d0%b8-windows/

Anon said 4:06PM on 7-18-2007

I would have thought that Google gets the hydrogen slot: The most common element in the internet universe.

Either that or spam.

4mysales said 4:35PM on 7-18-2007

This is a great way to show who the major players in web 2.0 currently are, and as a viral blogger, where to spend your time.

4MySales
http://realtorleads.blogspot.com/

Jason said 4:42PM on 7-18-2007

What, no YouTube???

Tim said 4:51PM on 7-18-2007

Awww, I want to push on the squares and get to the sites.... :(

Jordan Running said 6:44PM on 7-18-2007

I remember when Nikolai Nolan did this six or seven years ago: http://www.fairvue.com/blogalia/webelements/

ben schatz said 1:22AM on 7-19-2007

if it were true to the internet, most of those would be porn sites.

always.smile79 said 8:16AM on 7-19-2007

how come yahoo is at the top?

Tracking Clickbank sales:
www.CBNotifier.com

Martin said 7:35AM on 7-20-2007

it´s cool idea!

Greetings from Germany
Martin

http://www.artikel-mania.de

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