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Re: How big is the Internet?


From: Eugen Leitl <eugen () leitl org>
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 20:18:28 +0200

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:30:24PM -0400, Scott Howard wrote:
How about this - the size of the Internet is just short of 3 billion.

That's the number of people that have access to it.  To me, that's a far
more telling number than anything around IP address or Exabytes of data.

Sure enough -- but people might be no longer the prime movers and
shakers, with increased automation. 


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