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Global urbanization is growing at a faster rate than never before. By 2050 23% of the population will live in urban areas with more than 10 million people. A timeline history of mass migration of populations from rural to urban areas from 1960 to 2017. In the timeline, we see estimates from the UN World Urbanization Prospects on the number of people globally who live in urban and rural areas. In 2017, 4.1 billion people were living in urban areas. This video shows the race for urbanization in between countries from 1961-2017. Data is considered for countries from the modern era.

The Internet’s history goes back some decades by currently – email has been around since the Sixties, file sharing since a minimum of the Nineteen Seventies, and TCP/IP was standardized in 1982. however, it had been the creation of the globe wide internet in 1989 that revolutionized our history of communication. The chart starts in 1990, still one year before Berners-Lee free 1st application program and before the terribly first web site was on-line. At that point only a few computers around the world were connected to a network; estimates for 1990 recommend that solely 1/2 a % of the global population were on-line.