Thoughts on the Internet

We all use IT every day, anyone under 25 years of age can’t even remember a world without the internet. But how big is it, and how fast is it growing? Imagine it’s your birthday, and you get one of those cards that plays a tune. A week later you throw it in the bin. You will have thrown away more IT capability than existed in the entire world in the 1960’s! So let’s have a look at some facts & figures: 20% of the worlds data is searchable, and accessible to everyone. Google alone processes more than 40,000 searches every second (3.5 billion searches per day)! 90% of the worlds data has been created in the last two years. Data size is measured in bytes, then in order of size: kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes, petabytes, exabytes, zettabytes, and finally yottabytes - Nothing exists beyond this. … We are currently over 8 zettabytes globally, and growing by 2.5 exabytes per day. Social Media:

• Snapchat users share 527,760 photos

• More than 120 professionals join LinkedIn

• Users watch 4,146,600 YouTube videos

• 456,000 tweets are sent on Twitter

• Instagram users post 46,740 photos

• … All every minute

• 1.5 billion people are active on Facebook daily

• Europe has more than 307 million people on Facebook

• There are five new Facebook profiles created every second!

• More than 300 million photos get uploaded per day

• Every minute there are 510,000 comments posted and 293,000 statuses updated

Communications every minute:

• We send 16 million text messages

• There are 990,000 Tinder swipes

• 156 million emails are sent; Worldwide it is expected that there will be 9 billion email users by 2019

• 15,000 GIFs are sent via Facebook messenger

• Every minute there are 103,447,520 spam emails sent

• There are 154,200 calls on Skype

Photos:

• People took 1.2 trillion photos by the end of 2017

• There are 4.7 trillion photos stored

That’s a lot of data!

Author: Eugene O’Sullivan is Strategy & Innovation Director at Bell Integration, a leading IT Consulting and Systems Integrator. From IT transformation to complete IT lifecycle management, Bell works with customers to ensure technology enables businesses to succeed | https://www.bell-integration.com

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