We use more internet in 1 second than we used during the whole year of 1993!

Quite unsurprisingly, our internet usage has increased with the growing accessibility of mobile devices and supercomputers that we can buy for our homes. It has increased so much, in fact, that the world's usage in a single second surpasses that which was used by the world in the entire year of 1993. That isn't too shocking if you know the facts.

In 1993, only around 1-3% of classrooms and 23% percent of people had access to the internet, and it was not at all commercialized, though that would change completely by 1995. Now the internet is in nearly every household and every public building. You can almost get internet on any public street. It is reported that 1.2 billion people own and/or are using some kind of smartphone regularly, not to mention those who have them, but let them stay idle most of the time.

As far as numbers go, the world uses 160 Terabytes of information at any given second. In 1993 that number was as low as 100 over the entire length of the year. Today we use enough data to watch around 16 million average length youtube videos every second!

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