2+-+Changing+Access+to+Information

=**__Changing Access to Information__**= http://debajyoti.net/chart/chart-global-population-and-internet-users-2000-2020.html
 * ==Worldwide, the number of people online in March 2004 was 800 million==
 * ==50% of the US had access to internet but broadband access was very limited==
 * ==And now?==


 * ==__A Dollars Worth of Bandwidth__ in the 1970s could send "x" amount of data==
 * ==In the 1980s that same dollar could send 2x worth of data==
 * ==In 1990 = 30x==
 * ==In 1995 = 200x==
 * ==In 2000 = 1000x==
 * ==and now? (if anyone can find data on this, please share it with me and I will post it here. I was unable to find updated figures)==

__The Changing Internet__

 * ==//How BIG is the Internet?//==
 * ==As of 2004, there were about 2 billion web pages in existence and that number was doubling every year==
 * ==And now? There were 20 billion total **web pages** indexed as of November 2009, and 70,392,567 **websites** were indexed by Yahoo! as of August 2005. As of 2008, Google announced that it had indexed over 1 trillion unique URL's.==


 * ==//What is the Language of the Internet?//==
 * ==In 2004, //internet web page content// was 36% English, 38% other European languages, and 33% Asian==
 * ==In 2004, //internet users// were 55% US/Canada, 23% European, 17% Asian==
 * ==And now?==