An article on Wired.com recently claimed that Web is dying, largely based on traffic data from Cisco, and illustrated with this graph:

If you believe this graph you might actually agree with the impending death of the Web. But Rob Beschizza at BoingBoing drew a new graph based on the actual total traffic numbers, which paints a completely different picture:

Rob quickly figured out that the original graph only showed a proportion of total traffic, not the actual total traffic which has undergone major growth (duh!). As Rob puts it:

In fact, between 1995 and 2006, the total amount of web traffic went from about 10 terabytes a month to 1,000,000 terabytes (or 1 exabyte). According to Cisco, the same source Wired used for its projections, total internet traffic rose then from about 1 exabyte to 7 exabytes between 2005 and 2010.

Read the full article on BoingBoing.