Interesting facts :)

Hiii~ i am here to tell you abt interesting things that i know abt the internet :P


TOTAL NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS ONLINE

1996
– 10 million online in US (4% of US population)
– 8% of online users buying products via Internet

1997
– 11 million online in US
– 27% are shopping online

1998
– 19.1 million online in US
– 20 million users (”netizens”) worldwide say Internet is indispensable
– over 1.2 million users in Russia

1999
– 158 million online worldwide
– 58 million - 92 million online in US (depending on research source)
– average surfer got over 1,700 email messages
– 37 million use Web for e-commerce

2000
– 122.7 million online in US (source Yahoo! Internet Life)
– 180 million online in the US as of December 2000
– 2.1 billion online worldwide (out of 6 billion)
– Internet sales up 1,200% since 1997
– 500,000 new users to Internet every month
– 7 million US homes now getting 10 MB of two-way high speed Internet access

2003
– 500 million users online worldwide

2008
– 215 million online in the U.S. (71.4% of U.S. population)
– 1,464 million online worldwide (21.9% of world population)





Information from :http://www.brennerbooks.com/interestingfacts.html