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Tech Timeline: How We Got to the iPhone Era

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Tech Timeline: How We Got to the iPhone Era

Tech Timeline: How We Got to the iPhone Era

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The iPhone is iconic as the culmination of all modern technology and engineering in one instrument. Although taken for granted sometimes, all smartphones are incredible and sophisticated devices consisting of many different and unique parts. Not only do they facilitate modern communication, but they have powerful computation ability, GPS, gyroscopes, interactive touchscreens, multiple cameras, and impressive battery lives.

All these very different technologies have different paths of how they came to be, and this infographic explains how we got to this iPhone Era of technology history. Over centuries mathematicians, chemists, engineers, and other scientists have devoted their entire lives to move incrementally in their field towards today’s tech.

Not for the faint of heart, everything here is tracked all the way back to ancient times.

Original graphic from: Quartsoft

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Visualizing Internet Usage by Global Region

In this infographic, we map out internet usage by global region based on the latest data from the World Bank.

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Visualizing Internet Usage by Global Region

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Digital technologies have become an integral part of our daily lives, transforming communications, business, health, education, and more. Yet, billions of people around the world are still offline, and digital advancement has been uneven.

Here, we map internet usage by region based on data from the World Bank’s Digital Progress and Trends Report 2023.

Digitalization Has Been Uneven

According to the World Bank, between 2018 and 2022, the world gained 1.5 billion new internet users.

In 2020 alone, the share of the global population using the internet increased by 6% (500 million people), marking the highest jump in history. India, in particular, has seen high rates of adoption. For example, in 2018, only 20% of Indians used the internet. By 2022, this percentage had grown to more than 50%.

RegionIndividuals using the internet (% of population)
East Asia & Pacific74
Europe & Central Asia87
Latin America & the Caribbean76
Middle East & North Africa77
North America92
South Asia42
Sub-Saharan Africa34

However, the progress of digitalization has been uneven both within and across countries.

In 2022, one-third of the global population remained offline, with parts of Asia and Africa still experiencing very low rates of internet usage. For instance, more than half of businesses in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Senegal reportedly lack internet connection.

According to the World Bank’s report, when fast internet becomes available, the probability of an individual being employed increases by up to 13%, and total employment per firm increases by up to 22%. Moreover, firm exports nearly quadruple with the availability of fast internet. Across Africa, 3G coverage has been associated with a reduction in extreme poverty, with reductions of 10% seen in Senegal and 4.3% in Nigeria.

Curious to learn more about the internet? Check out this animated chart that shows the most popular web browsers since 1994.

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