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The Growing Phenomena of the Internet

Posted by Hive Web Development on 27 September 2009 | 0 Comments

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Below is a news article from CBC in Canada from the early 1990's when the Internet had around 15 million users. Back then people were shocked at the rapid take-up however this figure pales in comparison to the 360 million1 people that were using the Internet in 2000 and 1.6 billiontoday. This 362% increase over the last 9 years brings the total number of Internet users to only 25% of the worldwide population.  So if you have not been taking the Internet seriously for your business then maybe its about time because there is plenty of room for rapid growth for the Internet and your business.

Interesting fact about social networking: Currently facebook.com has in excess of 300 million2active users (which is 20 times the amount of users that were on the entire Internet in the early 90's!) all on one website. Therefore part of any good Internet marketing plan should also include a strategy for social networking.

If you need help to reach some of the 1.6 billion people on the Internet through a new website or a complete Internet marketing strategy then you should contact hive.net.au today.

Now for the news article, it is worth a watch just to see how far we have come in the last 17 years.

Statistical information cited from the following sources

  1. http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
  2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook

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