The History of the Internet (Animated Infographics)

"The History of the Internet [lonja.de] is a 7 minute animated infographics documentary explaining the inventions from timesharing to filesharing and from Arpanet to the Internet. The Internet history is told with the visual support of PICOL icons (short for Pictorial Communication Language), an ongoing research project that aims to determine a standard and reduced sign system for electronic communication."

http://infosthetics.com/archives/2009/01/the_history_of_the_internet.html