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Here’s what 1 gigabyte looked like 20 years ago (IBM disk on left) and today (SD card on right).

This graphic depicts the top 300,000 websites using their favicons (the little icon you see next to the address bar in your browser). This data comes from Alexa, and the graphic was produced by NMAP.org. To view it full size, with zoom capabilities, check out their site here.

Most of us use Google search on a daily basis. This ‘cheat sheet’ list of operators will help you streamline your searching. You can thank me later.

Here’s a cool infographic showing how internet users in the U.S. spend their time online.

Alas, the day has finally come marking the death of IE6. At least according to Aten Design Group, who hosted an IE6 funeral.

Technically speaking, IE6 is still alive, but even Microsoft urges users to upgrade to the latest version of its browser. Simply put, the content of websites has evolved so much since 2001 that users who haven’t yet upgraded will seriously be missing all the great things the web has to offer.

A study by comScore on social network access via mobile browser shows triple digit growth over that past year. A couple of interesting points:

• More than 30 Percent of Smartphone Owners Access Social Networking Sites via Mobile Browser
• Facebook’s mobile browser audience surpassed MySpace in February 2009, 3 months before it did the same with it’s PC browser audience.

You can read the rest of the stats at comScore.

Excellent bus shelter poster for McDonald’s coffee with an actual steaming cup of joe that reveals the headline! I wonder if anyone called the fire department because of this.

This sounds absolutely absurd, yet awesome at the same time: To promote rentals of convertibles, German rental company Sixt decided to literally bomb the clouds away from what is historically known as one of Europe’s wettest cities.

The results: lots of happy citizens and increased sales! Watch the video at Cream.