In honor of our latest member of the Oasis Decade club we’ve been on the lookout for information about the last 10 years. Here’s a infographic (courtesy of Mashable) comparing the internet 2002-2012. If you enjoyed this article, please consider sharing it!

Facebook officially launched its social Recommendations Bar, helping users stay up-to-date with the news sites their friends recommend. The plug-in has been likened to social news sharing site Digg, only more focused on pages friends like and share. “As a person reads an article, a small pop-up surfaces at the bottom of the screen highlighting recommended articles and prompting them to like the page. Recommendations are based on content that friends have explicitly liked and shared,” explains Facebook engineer Jeffrey Spehar

The ringing of bells could be heard through London this morning, marking the official start of the Olympic Games later in the day. People gathered at Big Ben, Parliament’s clock tower, in London to celebrate and listen to the bells chime