- Number of people in the world: 6,000,000,000
- Number of people online: 288,000,000
- Percentage of world population online: 4.8%
- Percentage of world population that speaks English: 5.4%
- Percentage of people online who speak English: 51.3%
- Percentage of world population that speaks Mandarin: 14.75%
- Percentage of people online who speak Mandarin: 5.2%
- Percentage of world population that speaks Japanese: 2.1%
- Percenage of people online who speak Japanese: 7.2%
- Dollars of venture capital invested in Q1, 2000: $17,220,000,000
- Number of people who danced to techno music at the latest Love Parade in Berlin: 1,000,000
- Number of banner ads DoubleClick serves per second: 25,000
- Cumulative ages of Napster's two founders: 39
- Price per pound of gold: $4,827.20
- Price per pound of Pentium III 800MHz microprocessors: $42,893.00
- Price per pouond of Viagra: $11,766.00
- Price per pound of Palm Vs: $1762.92
- Price per pound of rolled steel: $.19
SOURCES: Global Reach, 1-9; PriceWaterhouseCoopers, 10; DoubleClick bus card advertisement, 12; Fortune, 13-18.