[ih] The Sub-atomic Physics of The Internet

[Joseph Touch]

FWIW, that picture is of planets, not atoms. It perhaps more accurately represents the different platforms as worlds unto themselves, requiring substantial (and often not yet available) means of interplanetary transport to transit between.

Joe

> On Aug 28, 2020, at 12:39 PM, Jack Haverty via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> We know that molecules are made of atoms, and atoms are made of quarks,
> and somewhere you get strings and other stuff I personally don't know
> much about.   I saw this infographic and it struck me as an interesting
> snapshot of the current internal "subatomic" structure of The Internet -
> not our traditional technical structure of circuits, routers et al, but
> the internal social structure of the population of The Internet.
> 
> https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-the-social-media-universe-in-2020/