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The Internet in 60 Seconds

Technology · Animated · 60 seconds

What happens online every 60 seconds — searches, emails, messages, videos, orders — as brand icons navigate a circuit-maze and live counters climb.

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The story

The internet runs on numbers so large they stop meaning anything. This chart shrinks them to a human scale: what happens online in just 60 seconds. Searches, emails, messages, video views, songs streamed, orders placed — all ticking up in real time as the clock runs.

Brand icons navigate a circuit-board maze from "everyone" to "the internet," each path feeding a live counter. In a single minute the world runs millions of searches, sends hundreds of millions of messages, and streams years' worth of video — a snapshot of the scale we now take completely for granted.

Sources: Per-minute figures compiled from platform disclosures and industry "Internet Minute" estimates (Google, YouTube, Meta, Netflix, Amazon and others), rounded to representative annual averages.