I seem to be on a run of computing oriented posts at the moment, Yahweh is probably breathing a virtual sigh of relief ;) anyway, I came across a bunch of statistics yesterday about the internet which I thought worthy of some chat. Now, before the non-Geeks start groaning, I'm not saying statistics are interesting in themselves but check these babies out...
Emails sent in 2010: 107 Trillion
Average/day: 294 billion (or 50 per person on the planet, what the hell is everyone talking about!?)
Web sites added in 2010: 21.4 million (that's 600,000 per day or 7 per second!)
# of blogs: 152 million (only a handful worth reading of course!)
30 Billion pieces of content shared on Facebook per month, nice kitty
175 million twitter users, 7.5 million of which follow Lady GaGa, OMG ROFL!
I can remember the first time I saw the "internet" back in 1990, we all huddled around a screen for about 20 minutes watching a grainy picture of a gorilla's face slowly paint itself as it was being downloaded on a 24.4K modem, once it was complete the geek running the show proudly announced "that picture came all the way from Australia!", for months after that the "internet" was known in our crowd as that thing which allowed you to look at pictures of primates from around the world, I still think that was an accurate assessment.
2 comments:
I remember when we ran a worldwide mainframe network on 9.6kbps lines, with the odd 64kbps line to heavy locations, like Hong Kong and Singapore.
Ah - the days of the Amdahl mainframe and terminal emulation.
When PCs first came out they simply weren't computing - according to the IT department.
CB, 64Kbps!! - what on earth could you possibly use all that band-width for....
PC's used to be jumped up pocket calculators with a CRT for running Visicalc and that was it! Now of course they run Excel AND a web browser and spend 80% of their available CPU cycles processing updates from Apple, Adobe and Microsoft.. progress..
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