The Web at 40: How the world got wired by Omar El Akkad, Globe and Mail (Oct 29)
Capsule accounts of what was happening on the Internet decade by decade to the present.
Connectivity figures are the most dramatic - "This decade alone, the number of computers on the Net has soared from about 93 million to 700 million. "
Note the number of users by language: 478.7 million English, 361.3 million Chinese - and roughly another 380 million in other languages. Project this a couple of years to see Chinese as the largest language group, and growth in English language users dropping.
Posted by Gwen at October 29, 2009 12:40 PM