about 6 billion (74% of world)
About how many internet users are there worldwide today?
Roughly three out of every four people on Earth are now online.
Source: Wikipedia - Global Internet usage (2025) en.wikipedia.org
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IDC estimated global data volume grew from 4.4 zettabytes in 2013 to about how much by 2020?
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about 2.5 exabytes per day
About how much data was being generated worldwide every day, as of 2012?
An exabyte is a billion gigabytes — this was the daily pace of data creation over a decade ago.
Source: Wikipedia - Big data (2012) en.wikipedia.org
1969
In what year did the first message travel over ARPANET, the internet's predecessor?
The first transmission, between UCLA and Stanford, was meant to spell 'login' but crashed after just two letters, 'lo'.
Source: Wikipedia - ARPANET (2024) en.wikipedia.org
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