Packet Garden

Packet Garden is a superior and simple to use tool which captures information about how you use the Internet and uses this stored information to grow a private world you can later explore.

To do this, Packet Garden takes note of all the servers you visit, their geographical location and the kinds of data you access. Uploads make hills and downloads valleys, their location determined by numbers taken from internet address itself. The size of each hill or valley is based on how much data is sent or received. Plants are also grown for each protocol detected by the software; if you visit a Web site, an "HTTP plant" is grown. If you share files, a "Peer to Peer plant" is grown, and so on.

None of this information is made public or shared in any way, instead it's used to grow a personal landscape, a kind of "walk-in graph" uniquely shaped by the way you use the Internet. With each day of network activity a new world can be generated, each of which are stored as tiny files for you to browse, compare and visit as time goes by. You can think of packet gardens as pages from a network diary.

Requirements: Windows 2000/XP (32-bit only)