[CAnet - news] One Billion Internet Users

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Begin forwarded message:

From: "Adam Peake (

<http://www.useit.com/alertbox/internet_growth.html>

"Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, December 19, 2005:

One Billion Internet Users
Summary:
  The Internet is growing at an annualized rate of 18% and now has one
billion users. A second billion users will follow in the next ten years,
bringing a dramatic change in worldwide usability needs.

  Some time in 2005, we quietly passed a dramatic milestone in Internet
history: the one-billionth user went online. Because we have no central
register of Internet users, we don't know who that user was, or when he or
she first logged on. Statistically, we're likely talking about a 24-year-old
woman in Shanghai.

According to Morgan Stanley estimates, 36% of Internet users are now in Asia
and 24% are in Europe. Only 23% of users are in North America, where it all
started in 1969 when two computers -- one in Los Angeles, the other in Palo
Alto -- were networked together.

It took 36 years for the Internet to get its first billion users. The second
billion will probably be added by 2015; most of these new users will be in
Asia. The third billion will be harder, and might not be reached until 2040.

In 2002, NUA estimated that we had 605 million Internet users. Since then,
Internet use has grown by 18% per year -- certainly not as fast as the
1990s, but still respectable.

Overall, the Internet's growth has been truly remarkable. Ten years ago, the
'net was mostly used by geeks; now it's the default way to do business in
many countries. In our U.S. and European B2B studies, many business
professionals said they visit a company's website as the first step in
researching potential vendors."

see URL above more. Thanks to Ross Rader for the pointer.

Adam




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