Periodic Table of the Internet

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 19 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: General

If you’ve ever taken chemistry in high school or university, you’ll know what a periodic table is. This is a table which classifies all of the known elements according to their atomic number and groups together elements with similar properties (i.e. alkali metals, lanthanides, noble gases, etc.). I’ve always enjoyed studying the table myself with all of the data that is typically crammed on a single page.

Not to be outdone, Wellington Grey compiled a table similar in concept which classifies the major web sites on the Internet. The Periodic Table of the Internet gives these sites a symbol and a rank. It further groups them according to the 14 categories which include search engines, Internet tools, site ranking, aggregators, operating systems, blogs, videos, and news.

While its a real challenge to categorize the Internet like this, the resulting work is as fascinating to examine as the classic periodic table of the elements.



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