The foundation for the Internet were set up by the US Department of Defence in the 1960s. This involved a process of connecting computers in order to transfer data more quickly. A process that is still ongoing to this day.

30 million number of servers worldwide as of 2008, estimated to be closer to 75 million as of today.

550,000 miles of undersea cable, transmitting data at 186,000 miles per second.

Google estimates the size of the internet to be roughly 5 million TB of data. They control the world’s largest index of the Internet, but this comprises of only 0.004% of all data.

Billions of people around the world use the Internet every day, but it’s likely few outside of the IT industry could give a definitive answer to the question, “Where is the Internet? Our infographic explores this.

Infographic Source: WhoIsHostingThis.com