Packet Garden

Despite being a little spooky, Packet Garden is insanely intriguing. The downloadable application captures information about how you use the internet and translates all this data into a ‘private world’ you can explore. The application takes note of all the servers you visit, their geographical location and the kinds of data you access. For example, uploads make hills, downloads valleys– the size of each hill or valley is based on how much data is sent or received. Plants are grown for each protocol detected– so if you visit a website, an HTTP plant is grown, if you share files, a P2P plant is grow, etc. All of this information is kept private (we hope) on your own machine to grow your own personal landscape– and naturally, everyday you can rediscover a new world based on that days network activity.