The "Global internet users" graphic near the bottom of the article is an impressively bad example of what Edward Tufte called "chatjunk". Not only is it visuall

The "Global internet users" graphic near the bottom of the article is an impressively bad example of what Edward Tufte called "chatjunk". Not only is it visually pretty awful, it's really hard to tell where the data points are supposed to be. (The surface of the "piles o' desktop computers"? The top of the hominid heads? The neck of each hominid?) And I like how the vertical axis apparently starts at minus one billion users, suggesting that shortly prior to 2005, there was a point where there were negative one billion users.