::fibreculture:: stats?

[hankwitz]

hi sean,

this is the site that i sent to jOhn as well.  i found it in a trevor barr 
essay
and use it all the time.

what is pretty interesting for fibreculture is how the US, Europe and Asia 
Pacific
are now all pretty equal in users. That's a 40% increase in this
region since 1998!

cheers,
molly








At 03:01 PM 8/19/2003 +1200, Sean Cubitt wrote:
>http://www.nua.ie/surveys/how_many_online/
>
>
>
>World Total     605.60 million
>Africa  6.31 million
>Asia/Pacific    187.24 million
>Europe  190.91 million
>Middle East     5.12 million
>Canada & USA    182.67 million
>Latin America   33.35 million
>
>a bit slow off the mark but NUA ("founded in 1996. Nua Internet Surveys 
>was acquired in June 2001 by the Scope Communications Group, Ireland's 
>leading IT Media Company") are pretty reliable
>
>
>On a broader basis, well worth checking out
>http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info/
>
>extract from the summary:  The world produces between 1 and 2 exabytes of 
>unique information per year, which is roughly 250 megabytes for every man, 
>woman, and child on earth. An exabyte is a billion gigabytes, or 1018 
>bytes. Printed documents of all kinds comprise only .03% of the total. 
>Magnetic storage is by far the largest medium for storing information and 
>is the most rapidly growing, with shipped hard drive capacity doubling 
>every year. Magnetic storage is rapidly becoming the universal medium for 
>information storage.
>
>s
>
>
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