The Net’s billionth user
p2p news / p2pnet: The Internet is growing at about 18% every year and now has one billion users, says Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox.
So who was the billionth person to go online? “Statistically, we’re likely talking about a 24-year-old woman in Shanghai,” says Nielsen.
Meanwhile, ” A second billion users will follow in the next ten years, bringing a dramatic change in worldwide usability needs,” says Alertbox.
Most of the second billion will be in Asia, but, “The third billion will be harder, and might not be reached until 2040.”
“According to Morgan Stanley estimates, 36% of Internet users are now in Asia and 24% are in Europe,” says Nielsen. “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.”
Also See:
Alertbox – One Billion Internet User, December 19, 2005
December 20th, 2005 at 7:09 pm
RIAA has added 300 % increase in size to it’s lawyer pool, all that new meat out their and so goes the hunt. RIAA plans to sue for a living, this cuts the artist out totally.