{"id":13606,"date":"2012-05-10T18:01:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T10:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/?p=13606"},"modified":"2022-12-15T16:31:56","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T08:31:56","slug":"state-of-internet-2012-infographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/state-of-internet-2012-infographic\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of Internet in 2012 (Infographic)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We use the Web for just about anything these days. At the minimum, we do stuff like reading the news headlines, catching up with friends, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/gmail-advanced-search-ultimate-guide\/\">checking our emails<\/a>. But as technology advances, more and more bandwidth-hungry apps and services start to crop up. You can now do weekly skype sessions with your family when you are away on campus or even complete an online degree with a university halfway across the world. Gaming or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/top-web-annotation-and-markup-tools\/\">collaborations<\/a> need no longer be limited to people of the same nationality or even the same timezone. All of this and a whole lot more is made possible because of the Internet \u2013 and a stable Internet connection, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Derived with stats by Akamai, here\u2019s an infographic from <strong>OnlineUniversities.com<\/strong> on the <strong>State of the Internet in 2012<\/strong>. So far, South Korea is (still) topping the list of Internet speeds, boasting a whooping 17.5 Mbps connection speed \u2013 and that\u2019s the average speed<strong> for the nation<\/strong>. By comparison, the U.S. averages out at about 5.8 Mbps while the global average connection speed crawls by at a measly 2.3 Mbps.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ref-block ref-block--post\" id=\"ref-post-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/what-happens-in-an-internet-minute-infographic\/\" class=\"ref-block__link\" title=\"Read More: What Happens in an Internet Minute [Infographic]\" rel=\"bookmark\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What Happens in an Internet Minute [Infographic]<\/span><\/a>\n<div class=\"ref-block__thumbnail img-thumb img-thumb--jumbo\" data-img='{ \"src\" : \"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/thumbs\/250x160\/what-happens-in-an-internet-minute-infographic.jpg\" }'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<noscript>\n<style>.no-js #ref-block-post-13292 .ref-block__thumbnail { background-image: url(\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/thumbs\/250x160\/what-happens-in-an-internet-minute-infographic.jpg\"); }<\/style>\n<\/noscript>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"ref-block__summary\">\n<h4 class=\"ref-title\">What Happens in an Internet Minute [Infographic]<\/h4>\n<p class=\"ref-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tEveryone says that everything moves fast on the Internet, but just how fast are we talking about here?...\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Read more<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/ig\/state-of-the-internet-2012.jpg\" alt=\"state of the internet infographic\" width=\"970\" height=\"3036\"><\/figure>\n<p>Spot an infographic you think will be a perfect fit here? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/submit-news-tips\/\">Send the link to us<\/a> with relevant details and we\u2019ll credit you with the find.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We use the Web for just about anything these days. At the minimum, we do stuff like reading the news headlines, catching up with friends, and checking our emails. But as technology advances, more and more bandwidth-hungry apps and services start to crop up. You can now do weekly skype sessions with your family when&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3398],"tags":[1544,1977],"topic":[4521],"class_list":["entry-content","is-maxi"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.8 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The State of Internet in 2012 (Infographic) - Hongkiat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We use the Web for just about anything these days. 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