Users
Traffic
eBuy
The Goods
Soul
100
North America makes up this percent of all worldwide internet users, to the nearest tens (90, 80, 70, 60 ... )
What is 10 (8.3%)?
100
Unlike the early days of the Internet, these operate the most heavily trafficked spaces on the internet today. It's in the suffix after the dot.
What are private or commercial entities?
100
In 2021, this company had around half of the share of the US eCommerce market, though it is dwarfed in global sales, coming in 2nd place.
Who is Amazon?
Amazon = $239 billion global sales
Alibaba = $765 billion global sales
100
These were the top two visited websites in 2021, and owned by the same conglomerate.
Google and YouTube?
100
These were the #3 and #4 top visited websites in 2021. Hint: this includes the top social media website.
What are Facebook and Twitter?
200
This continent has the highest penetration rate (% of population connected) at 93%, or nearly 350 million users in 2022.
What is North America?
behind Europe and Asia in terms of total users
#2 - Europe (88%)
#3 - Australia/Oceania (70%)
#4 - Latin America/Caribbean (68%)
#5 - Asia
Denmark, Iceland, the UAE, Kuwait, and Qatar have highest at 99%
200
This fastest growing app, named after an onomatopoeia, was the most downloaded app in 2021.
What is TikTok?
200
Though not as much growth as others, this platform remains the most-used by marketers. The average user makes 10 posts and and clicks on 11 ads per month. They also spend 39 minutes per day on it.
What is Facebook?
200
This is the most commonly used language on the Internet.
What is English?
60% of top 10M websites, compared to 16% of world population that speaks it.
Russian 8% and Spanish 4%
Chinese and Portuguese ~1.4%
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-most-used-languages-on-the-internet/
200
This brilliant VT professor wrote the seminal socio-technical history of the Internet titled "Inventing the Internet"
Who is Janet Abbate?
300
As of mid 2019, there were about this many unique internet users around the world, which is also the the approximate age of the earth in years.
What is 4.5 Billion?
Rose to about 5 Billion as of June 2022
About 65% of the world’s total population
300
Since 2014, this use has accounted for MOST of the global downstream traffic.
What is video streaming? > 57%
Average person watches 84 minutes of video/day
#1 - YouTube ~2 billion unique monthly visitors and 300 Hours of video uploaded to Youtube every minute
#2 - Netflix 150 million monthly visitors and most downstream traffic at 15%
#3 - Vimeo 130 million
300
Google processes around 40,000 of these every second, about 1.2 trillion every year.
What are search queries?
300
In 1997, he announced his Electronic Commerce Initiative from the White House.
"To preserve individual privacy. To advance national security. To protect intellectual property. To ensure open access. And to promote fair competition"
Who is Vice President Al Gore?
300
An early decision by this US president's administration placed oversight for internet governance concerns in the Department of Commerce, a jurisdictional decision that focused attention sharply on how to make the Internet support a global marketplace.
Who is Bill Clinton?
400
This country leads with the number of users, with its citizens accounting for more than 50% of the global Internet population.
What is China? 1 billion
Asia 2.8 billion
2018, China with 828 million online
> combined population of US, Japan, Russia, and Mexico
400
There Are Over 2.7 ____bytes of data on the Internet. That's 2700 exabytes.
Zetta ?
1 zettabyte = 1 trillion gigabytes.
400
This early e-commerce website was a notable success of the dot.com bubble founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995. Going once ... going twice ...
What is eBay
400
The Clinton administrations support for this was decisive in establishing network control (Grosse), and it "opened the floodgates for new services: social media, gaming, e-commerce, and millions of personal websites and blogs" (Abbate)
What is privatization or commercial interests?
400
Around 1990, the nonprofit organizations that had operated this Internet backbone reinvented themselves as the first commercial Internet service providers, serving both the NSF and private customers, and resulting in the de facto privatization of the Internet.
NSFNET
National Science Foundation
500
This country has the second largest number of Internet users, with more than 500 million.
What is India?
658 billion online, due to state-sponsored campaign to connect rural areas
500
52% of all internet traffic is generated by these, while humans account for only 48%.
What are bots?
Most are bots that combat malware and regulate the internet ecosystem, like Google “spiders” and Facebook “feed fetchers”.
500
The famous leader of this company was ousted in 1985, returned to become CEO in 1998 after his former company NeXT was bought by this emerging big tech giant.
What is Apple.
500
This is the #1 (of 5) principles in Clinton's “A Framework,” guiding Internet policy.
(1) The private sector should lead.
(2) Government should avoid undue restrictions on electronic commerce.
500
According to Janet Abbate in How the Internet Lost Its Soul, in 1986 Congress failed to support this federal “information superhighway” project (with the acronym NREN) to connect K-12 schools and libraries for all citizens. It would have placed the Internet "under federal control until the late 1990s, potentially allowing time to upgrade security or create regulations to protect users."
What is National Research and Education Network (NREN) in the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991?