{"id":664,"date":"2005-12-19T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-19T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2005\/12\/19\/one-billion-strong\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:50:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:50:55","slug":"one-billion-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2005\/12\/19\/one-billion-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"One billion strong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime in 2005, the world passed a significant milestone, as the one billionth Internet user signed on.<\/p>\n<p>This week, Internet usability guru Jacob Neilson explores the significance of this in his latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.useit.com\/alertbox\/internet_growth.html\">Alertbox <\/a>newsletter.  Here&#8217;s some interesting tidbits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>According to <a class=\"out\" title=\"Morgan Stanley, Nov. 2005: Global Technology\/Internet Trends\" href=\"http:\/\/www.morganstanley.com\/institutional\/techresearch\/gsb112005.html\">Morgan Stanley estimates<\/a>, 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 &#8212; one in Los Angeles, the other in Palo Alto &#8212; were networked together<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>In 2002, <a class=\"out\" title=\"NUA Internet: How Many Online?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nua.com\/surveys\/how_many_online\/\">NUA estimated<\/a> that we had 605 million Internet users. Since then, Internet use has grown by 18% per year &#8212; certainly not as <a class=\"old\" title=\"Alertbox Sept. 1995: Growth of the Web \" href=\"http:\/\/www.useit.com\/alertbox\/9509.html\">fast as the 1990s<\/a>, but still respectable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The implications on how we use the Internet and what it is used for (like e-commerce) are sobering.This is a good piece to whet your appetite for thinking some big thoughts about where all this is taking us. Personally, I&#8217;m finding it more and more exciting every day. But just how significant the changes are is not necessarily that obvious in a day-to-day sense. It&#8217;s only when you look at how quickly things have changed in such a short time that you start to grasp that something big is truly happening.After all, as I am fond of telling my kids, when I went to school, computers were kept in separate rooms. I only ever used a typewriter to do term papers and when I started my first job in the newspaper business, I used a manual typewriter! And I&#8217;m not really that old!What about you? When did you start using computers? And when did they become a part of your life that you couldn&#8217;t imagine doing without? Or have you yet to cross that Rubicon?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime in 2005, the world passed a significant milestone, as the one billionth Internet user signed on. This week, Internet usability guru Jacob Neilson explores the significance of this in his latest Alertbox newsletter. 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