LJ Index, April 2006

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  1. Billions of Internet users: 1
  2. Number of computers on the Internet in the U.S. in 1969: 2
  3. Number of years it took for Internet to reach its first billion users: 36
  4. Estimated year when 2 billion will be reached: 2015
  5. Estimated year when 3 billion will be reached: 2040
  6. Anualized percentage growth rate in internet use: 18
  7. U.S. percentage of Internet users in 1995: 66
  8. U.S. percentage of Internet users in 2005: 23
  9. Position of South Korea in broadband penetration: 1
  10. Position of China among Internet users under 30: 1
  11. Millions of Firefox downloads by October 2005: 100
  12. Minimum Firefox market share in November 2005: 10
  13. Number of Netcraft's 10 most reliable hosts using Linux: 3
  14. Number of Netcraft's 10 most reliable hosts using an open source OS: 7
  15. Position of Hostway, which runs Linux, among most reliable hosts: 1
  16. Position of Apache among most popular Web servers: 1
  17. Apache perentage of all Web servers: 70.98
  18. Millions of weblogs as of 4 January 2006: 24.4
  19. Thousands of new weblogs added each day: 70
  20. Thousands of weblog posts created per hour: 33

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Sources: 1-7, Jakob Nielsen, Useit.com; 8-12, Mary Meeker, Morgan Stanley; 13-17, Netcraft.com December 2005 reports; 18-20, Technorati data from January 2006 and November 2005.

http://www.morganstanley.com/institutional/techresearch/pdfs/GSB112005.pdf

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/12/index.html

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