Internet traffic is undergoing constant change. One prominent example is the COVID-19 outbreak, a global pandemic, in March 2020. As a result, billions of people were either encouraged or forced by their governments to stay home to reduce the spread of the virus. This caused many to turn to the Internet for work, education, social interaction, and entertainment. With the Internet demand rising at an unprecedented rate, the question of whether the Internet could sustain this additional load emerged. To answer this question, we review the impact of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic on Internet traffic. Next, we will take a look at the rise of IoT devices and their traffic patterns. Bio: Anja Feldmann studied CS in Paderborn, Germany and continued her studies at Carnegie Mellon University, where she earned her Ph.D in 1995. The next four years she did research work at AT\&T Labs Research, before taking professor positions at Saarland University, the TU Munich, and the TU Berlin. In May 2012, she was elected the first woman on the employer side of the Supervisory Board of SAP. Since the 2018, Anja is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany. Her current research interests include Internet measurement, traffic engineering and traffic characterization, network performance debugging, and network architecture. She has published more than 70 papers and has served on more than 60 program committees, including as Co-Chair of ACM SIGCOMM 2003 and ACM IMC 2011 and as Co-PC-Chair of ACM SIGCOMM 2007, ACM IMC 2009, ACM HotNets 2014, and ACM CoNext 2020. She is a recipient of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Preis, the Berliner Wissenschaftspreis, the Schelling Preis, and the Vodafone Innovation Award. She is a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the BBAW, and acatech.