Staggering internet stats

(thanks to the sunday uk times online via raw story...)

and it's changing the world faster than we can comprehend...

• 50 billion the number of e-mails dispatched every day wordwide; in 2001 the traffic was less than 12 billion

• 88 per cent of e-mails are junk including about 1 per cent which are virus-infected

• 32 The average number of e-mail messages received per person per day. This is rising by 84 per cent each year

• 440 million the number of electronic mailboxes in use, including 170 million corporate ones, growing by 32 per cent per year

• 1,035 million the total number of mobile phone text messages sent each month in Britain

• 37 The average number of texts a user sends per month compared with 21 in 2001 1 million the number of children aged under 10 in Britain — one in three — who own a phone

• 8 The average age at which a child gets a mobile phone in Britain

the current internet protocol, ipv4, has approximately 4B available internet addresses, of which 75% are already in use... the new protocol, ipv6, already being rolled out in some countries, will have (count 'em)

340,282,366,920,938,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

available addresses... stated differently, that's 340 undecillion, 282 decillion, 366 nonillion, 920 octillion, 938 septillion...

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