A Visual Guide to Global Internet Use: Internet Addicts, Don't Move to the Democratic Republic of Congo

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The BBC put together a great interactive graphic that traces the percentage of a nation's populace that uses the internet every year, from 1998 to 2008--kind of a shorthand for development over the last decade.

The chart darkens each country as its internet-using percentage rises, so you can see the entire world get dramatically darker as the decade goes on. The description from 1998:

In 1998, just a few countries--Iceland, Sweden, and New Zealand--had extensive internet usage. In Africa, the...