Passing Thoughts

Technology has almost completely gotten into us already and the way it’s evolving at record pace, I wouldn’t be surprised if one day, no human being is unhooked to the net.

Here’s the latest amazing stats as of June 30, 2010, based on the Internet Usage and World Population Statistics put together by InternetWorldStats.com, based on data from the US Census Bureau, Nielsen Online, International Telecommunications Union and other reliable sources:

a) Current Estimated World Population: 6,845,609,960 (or roughly 6.8 billion)

b) Internet Users as of December 31, 2000: 360,985,492 (or some 361 million)

c) Internet Users as to Today: 1,966,524,816 (or about 2 billion)

d) Internet Growth 2000-2010: 444.8%

This simply means that almost 1 in every 3 human beings uses the most complex and intricate web ever known to the 21st century civilization—world wide web or the Internet.

Internet as another universe. (Photo courtesy of The Opte Project)

The astronomic growth of Internet indeed, triggered the dramatic rise of online communication exchanges and interaction worldwide, bringing far ends of the globe virtually together.

Separated by continents and different time zones, people from all walks of life who have access to the Internet, whether using PCs or mobile devices, communicate to each other real-time.

WordPress, Facebook, Twitter, YM, Friendster, and many more…Oh’ baby it really is a wild, wired world!