eHarmony.com produces 236 marriages per day.

*The Internet is a $1.5 Trillion dollar industry. = $1,500,000,000,000 = 1 Trillion, 500 Billion.
*The Internet is projected to become a $4Trillion industry by the year 2020.
*47 million new websites appeared in 2009, with the total number of websites being 234 million.
*There are 85 million (85,000,000) .com domains registered today.
*In 1995, there were 18 billion (18,000,000,000) lookups for .com for the entire year.
*Today, in 2010, there are 54billion (54,000,000,000) lookups for .com DAILY!
*In 1985, the first .com domain was registered and only 5 additional domains were registered that year (6 total at the end of 1985).
*There were 90 Trillion emails sent in 2009, by 1.4 billion email users.
*It is projected that in 2013 there will be 2.2billion people online in the world = 2,200,000,000.
*There will be 5 billion cell phone users by the end of 2010 with 1 billion of those using their phones to surf.
*4 million people (4,000,000) take online classes every day.
*Two-letter “dot com” domain names are some of the most valuable virtual real-estate.
*YP.com sold recently for $3.85 million.* JJ.com reportedly sold for 7 million.
*1 in 5 people surveyed said if the Internet would go down for one day, their lives would be horribly disrupted.
*1 in 5 people surveyed said if the Internet would cease to exist, their business would have to shut down.
*The 100th domain was registered Nov 30, 1987.
*The 2,000,000th domain was registered May 4, 1998.
*There are only 676 possible two letter .com domains.
*There are 17,576 possible three letter .com domains.
*There are 456,976 possible four letter .com domains.
*There are 11,881,376 possible five letter .com domains.
*There are 308,915,776 possible six letter .com domains.
*There are 8,036,810,176 possible seven letter .com domains.

Men comprise 45% of Twitter users, while women represent 55%

72.5% of all users joining during the first five months of 2009.

85.3% of all Twitter users post less than one update/day

21% of users have never posted a Tweet

93.6% of users have less than 100 followers, while 92.4% follow less than 100 people.

5% of Twitter users account for 75% of all activity

333.5 million e-mail accounts active in US (in 1998 it was 77 million)

46% of American workers use the Net for personal reasons

48% of engaged couples used Web to gather info on and plan weddings

55% of online gamblers are women

650 thousand new jobs created based on Internet contact

5,400 jobs cut between January and June 2000 due to dot-com failures

44% of online surfers have participated in an online auction this year

32% used the Net to keep up with and gather voting and election

Facebook was originally named TheFaceBook and it was developed by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg.

The first use of the FaceBook was on the Harvard campus and it was limited only to Harvard students.

MySpace was purchased in 2005 for $580 million by Rupert Murdoch creator of a media empire that includes 20th Century Fox and the Fox television stations.

Google, the Internet search company founded in September 1998. by Larry Page & Sergey Brin, got it’s name from the word Googol, which represents number 1 followed with hundred zeros after it.

Who coined the phrase ‘World Wide Web’? Tim Berners-Lee in 1990. He’s also considered by most
people as the person who started the whole thing rolling.

How did the Internet Start and Why? It all started with the time-sharing of IBM computers in the
early 1960s at universities such as Dartmouth and Berkeley in the States. People would share the same computer for their computing tasks. The Internet also received help from Sputnik! After this Russian Satellite was launched in 1957, President Eisenhower formed ARPA to advance computer networking and
communication.

Which decade really saw the explosion of the net? The 1990s. The Internet exploded into the mainstream with the release of the first popular web browser Mosaic in 1993.

How fast is the Internet growing? Very fast! It took 38 years for radio to reach 50 million users, 13 years for TV, and only 5 years for the Internet.

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

215 million in US surf Internet and use email daily as of 2008