useit.com— "Some time in 2005, we quietly passed a dramatic milestone in Internet history: the one-billionth user went online. Statistically, we're likely talking about a 24-year-old woman in Shanghai."
Dec 19, 2005View in Crawl 4
""It took 36 years for the Internet to get its first billion users. The second billion will probably be added by 2015""double the noobs in half the time. great.
The second line of the article is "Because we have no central register of Internet users, we don't know who that user was, or when he or she first logged on."If that is the case how do we know we have past 1 billion users? I have at least 10 separate identities on the internet from old jobs and such. I also have about 60 identities for purchasing. I set up a different email address for each site I purchase from. I also have around 100 users on my domain at my current job. According to my spam firewall in the past 3 days mail has been sent to over 4000 unique user names within my domain. So 3900 of those emails are to fictitious users.
Hard to believe that is all when there's supposedly over 99 billion McDonald's? Is that right? Or does that mean McDonald's has served over 99 billion burgers? Wow, that's a lot of burgers! Why's the sky blue?
neverenderDec 20, 2005
""It took 36 years for the Internet to get its first billion users. The second billion will probably be added by 2015""double the noobs in half the time. great.
Closed AccountDec 20, 2005
The second line of the article is "Because we have no central register of Internet users, we don't know who that user was, or when he or she first logged on."If that is the case how do we know we have past 1 billion users? I have at least 10 separate identities on the internet from old jobs and such. I also have about 60 identities for purchasing. I set up a different email address for each site I purchase from. I also have around 100 users on my domain at my current job. According to my spam firewall in the past 3 days mail has been sent to over 4000 unique user names within my domain. So 3900 of those emails are to fictitious users.
ext237Dec 20, 2005
xbmcrules: <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet</a>I remeber back when usenet, Telnet and IRC were "The Internet". Now everyone things "The Internet" = "The Web". Current popular use of usenet: warez, music, movies, and as mentioned above, wide varieties of porn.
jayizkoolDec 20, 2005
Does this mean One Billion Users are susceptible to a Remote LAND Attack? Maybe so, have a look for yourself...<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/security/RLA_(_Remote_LanD_Attack_)">http://digg.com/security/RLA_(_Remote_LanD_Attack_)</a>
jhd121Dec 20, 2005
That's a big party
spidomanDec 20, 2005
This account has been closed by the user
satansmagichatDec 20, 2005
"someone explain usenet for all of us"It lets you get more porn.
kanceDec 20, 2005
Hard to believe that is all when there's supposedly over 99 billion McDonald's? Is that right? Or does that mean McDonald's has served over 99 billion burgers? Wow, that's a lot of burgers! Why's the sky blue?
aeplusDec 21, 2005
If I had a dollar from every Internet user...