Dr. Benny Peiser 04.01.2012 12:46 +Feedback
The Incredible Scale of the Internet
Incredible things that happen on the Internet every minute. Today there are more than 2 billion Internet users—that’s nearly 30 percent of the world’s entire population connected to each other. No other human endeavor has ever been this big. And those users are busy. Every single minute of every day, they conduct 700,000 Google searches and 11 million IM (instant message) conversations and post 1 million Facebook status updates. Every single minute, they create more than 1,800 terabytes of new information and data. In other words, more content is posted to YouTube every month than the combined output of all U.S. television networks since their inception in the 1940s. Every minute, more than 168 million email messages are sent. That’s 88 quadrillion messages every year—and each and every one of them is a potential threat vector and source of a malware intrusion. More here