The Internet

The Internet Facts

We all know that the internet is big. But did you know it's so big that it's practically impossible to measure!!! With so much information available at the touch of a button, It's easy to see how 70% of people feel that the amount of available data is overwhelming. Here's a little perspective on The Internet.

1. GOOGLE estimates the internet at about 5 million terabytes of data. Which is 5 billion gigabytes or 5 trillion megabytes.

The human brain could hold an estimated 1 to 10 terabytes. Using an estimate of 5 terabytes per brain, it would take a million human brains to store The Internet.

• 212 DVD's can hold 1 terabytes ....so more than 1 billion could hold the internet.
• 40 blu-ray discs can store 1 terabyte...so 200 million blu-ray discs could hold the internet.

2. The internet population:

• 76.2% : North America         
• 60.8% : Australia Oceania                       
• 50.3% : Europe
• 31.9% : Latin America and Caribbean 
• 28.8% : Middle East
• 20.1% : Asia
• 8.7% : Africa

World average : 26.6%

3.  274 billion emails are sent every day. 81% are spam (200 billion spam emails every day). 90 trillion emails were sent every year.

4. Hours spent on the internet:

• It is difficult to say if the leisure time on the internet surpasses television, because a growing majority of people use both at the same time. 59 % of Americans use the internet and television simultaneously. 
• 2 hours are spent on youtube and in chat rooms.
• 3.5 hours are spent IM-ING friends..like LOLZ! FML! TTY!
• Teenagers spent on average 31 hours online every week, in comparison they spend 4 hours doing home work every week.
• 2 hours are spent watching pornography
• 1.5 hours are spent on family planing and pregnancy sites.
• 35 minutes is spent on weight loss and diet sites.
• more than 1 hour is spent looking up plastic and cosmetic surgery 

5. There are 234 million websites and 126 million blogs