We take the internet so much for granted now that it seems like it's been around for ever but it's just 20 years old. The commonly accepted view is that the internet was born in August 1991 and is accredited to one Tim Berners Lee. A heck of a lot has happened since then.
20 is likely to be the only small number you will come across when seeking out data about the internet as every other statistic is in millions or billions.
Have a look at this for 2010 ... (it may already be out of date)
There are a variety of data sources quoting web and internet usage statistics. They don't always tally and difficult to be sure who is quoting the most accurate figures but from a combination of different sources in circulation for 2010 the following are some of the big numbers being bandied around (and who are we to argue) ....
255 Million = the number of websites online at Dec 2010
294 Billion = yes 'billion' - the staggering number of emails sent across the internet and networks every day
262 Billion = the outrageous number of those daily emails that were spam (89%)
21 Million = Number of new websites in 2010
1.97 Billion = number of interent users worldwide (June 2010) - likely to be well over 2bn now as users are
growing at about 14% per anuum600 Million = Facebook users at end 2010, up from 350 million in 2009
175 Million = Twitter users at Sep 2010
9.77 Million = The number of followers Lady GaGa has, she being the most followed Tweeter on Twitter!2 Billion = number of videos watched each day on YouTube
130 Million = the number of photos uploaded to Flickr each month
152 Million = number of blogs on the internet
4 Billion = the number of 'searches' per day
14% of us (internet users) have uploaded videos while up to 84% view videos online.
Time to add to the statistics of YouTube....
This video was Compiled in Aug 2010 so some of the stats probbaly already out of date compared to more recent above ...
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