Awesome Infographics

Remember when Excite!, Lycos, and Geocities were a thing? In one of its more fascinating moving bar charts, Data Is Beautiful looks back at the history of the Internet over more than two decades, tracking the biggest websites based on monthly visits. Yes, there was a time before Google, Facebook, and YouTube.

If you look back at how computers have been programmed over the years, the languages used have shuffled around quite a bit. From the early days of Fortran, to the rise of BASIC, to the explosion of Java, PHP, and Python, Data Is Beautiful charted the changing popularity of each major language over more than 50 years.

Don’t feel small and insignificant enough today? Here, watch this. 3D graphics expert Álvaro Gracia Montoya of MetaBallStudio puts the size of the Earth and our Sun into perspective alongside some of the other stars and planets in the universe.

As we’ve learned before, Alvaro Gracia Montoya of MetaBallStudios loves to compare the sizes of things. This time out, he shows us the vast differences in size of everything from a lightsaber to Yoda, to Starkiller Base, to Yavin Prime… and everything in between.

Neil Cicierega’s amusing video pokes fun at the numerous infographics and clips listing unique state attributes. Here, he runs down the strange and disturbing dreams that each of America’s 50 states experiences, in all likelihood due to some sort of chemical in the water.

With Ant-Man and the Wasp hitting theaters, Marvel figured it would be fun to offer up a size comparison of the flexibly-sized hero with some of their other characters. We had never heard of Simon “Throg” Walterson, but we so need a Pet Avengers movie now.

A spectacularly fun book for any Star Wars fan, graphic designer Tim Leong’s lighthearted paperback is packed with infographics, facts, and figures from what each lightsaber color means, to the heights of popular characters, to the Jedi High Council seating chart.

Size comparison guru Reigarw Comparisons looks at the lethality of a variety of substances, and tells us how much of each one we’d have to take in before we dropped dead. We’re not sure how many cats it would take to kill you though.

Chemistry teacher Andy Brunning’s website is packed with amazing scientific infographics which educate and entertain. The charts explain everything from the composition of spirits, foods, and products, to the origins of element names. Be sure to check out Andy’s book too!

Information is Beautiful compiled some of the most googled falsehoods as well as the actual facts behind them. The image on the site is a partial chart; the art print and the PDF contain 26 more items. Sources here.

Comics Alliance made this neat chart that catalogs the announced lineup of superhero movies from Marvel/Disney, Warner Bros., Sony and Fox. 2017 is crazy packed. We can’t wait for Black Panther and LEGO Batman.

If you didn’t have the time to watch COSMOS, animated infographic experts Kurzgesagt created this short film which does its best to condense everything need to know about the composition of the Earth in just 7 minutes.

Philip Niemeyer made an infographic for The Boston Globe that charts the summer hit songs in the US for the past 100 years, with links to the songs or their videos. Waterfalls came out 19 years ago?! Man we’re old.

Data scientist Matt Daniels looked at the variety of words in the first 35,000 lyrics of various hip hop artists and then ranked them in an infographic chart. The winner? Aesop Rock. And DMX needs a dictionary.

Thinking about watching every episode of a show you’ve never seen? Nielsen put together this handy chart which helps you plan how many sick days you’ll need to take from work to catch up. We’re guessing this website came in handy.

Back in 2005, the American Film Institute presented their list of 100 best movie quotes. Designer Nathan Yau of Flowing Data turned the quotes into simple charts and put them into one large poster. You’re gonna need a bigger view.