What happened with the Internet in 2009?

altafsamnani — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:42:11 +0000

How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many Internet users were there? This post will answer all of those questions and many more. Prepare for information overload, but in a good way.
We have used a wide variety of sources from around the Web. A full list of source references is available at the bottom of the post for those interested. We here at Pingdom also did some additional calculations to get even more numbers to show you.
Enjoy!

Email

90 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009.
247 billion – Average number of email messages per day.
1.4 billion – The number of email users worldwide.
100 million – New email users since the year before.
81% – The percentage of emails that were spam.
92% – Peak spam levels late in the year.
24% – Increase in spam since last year.
200 billion – The number of spam emails per day (assuming 81% are spam).

Websites

234 million – The number of websites as of December 2009.
47 million – Added websites in 2009.

Web servers

13.9% – The growth of Apache websites in 2009.
-22.1% – The growth of IIS websites in 2009.
35.0% – The growth of Google GFE websites in 2009.
384.4% – The growth of Nginx websites in 2009.
-72.4% – The growth of Lighttpd websites in 2009.

Domain names

81.8 million – .COM domain names at the end of 2009.
12.3 million – .NET domain names at the end of 2009.
7.8 million – .ORG domain names at the end of 2009.
76.3 million – The number of country code top-level domains (e.g. .CN, .UK, .DE, etc.).
187 million – The number of domain names across all top-level domains (October 2009).
8% – The increase in domain names since the year before.

Internet users

1.73 billion – Internet users worldwide (September 2009).
18% – Increase in Internet users since the previous year.
738,257,230 – Internet users in Asia.
418,029,796 – Internet users in Europe.
252,908,000 – Internet users in North America.
179,031,479 – Internet users in Latin America / Caribbean.
67,371,700 – Internet users in Africa. 57,425,046 – Internet users in the Middle East.
20,970,490 – Internet users in Oceania / Australia.

Social media

126 million – The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse).
84% – Percent of social network sites with more women than men.
27.3 million – Number of tweets on Twitter per day (November, 2009)
57% – Percentage of Twitter’s user base located in the United States.
4.25 million – People following @aplusk (Ashton Kutcher, Twitter’s most followed user).
350 million – People on Facebook.
50% – Percentage of Facebook users that log in every day.
500,000 – The number of active Facebook applications.

Images

4 billion – Photos hosted by Flickr (October 2009).
2.5 billion – Photos uploaded each month to Facebook.
30 billion – At the current rate, the number of photos uploaded to Facebook per year.

Videos

1 billion – The total number of videos YouTube serves in one day.
12.2 billion – Videos viewed per month on YouTube in the US (November 2009).
924 million – Videos viewed per month on Hulu in the US (November 2009).
182 – The number of online videos the average Internet user watches in a month (USA).
82% – Percentage of Internet users that view videos online (USA).
39.4% – YouTube online video market share (USA).
81.9% – Percentage of embedded videos on blogs that are YouTube videos.

Malicious software

148,000 – New zombie computers created per day (used in botnets for sending spam, etc.)
2.6 million – Amount of malicious code threats at the start of 2009 (viruses, trojans, etc.)
921,143 – The number of new malicious code signatures added by Symantec in Q4 2009.

Why should every child be competitive?

altafsamnani — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:40:12 +0000

Today parents –all of us — want child only to be the first in the class in studies, in sports, in extra curricular activities and put enormous pressure on the children. All parents want their children to study hard and become first-graders, cut-off admission percentages in most colleges for decent courses is now in the range of 90% and above, schools are now not educating children in readying them for life but rather readying them for the IITs and top-notch colleges.

Our whole system of parenting, bringing up, education, etc. is so entrenched in â€œme becoming better than the otherâ€œ, that it creates insecurity in children, and then try have them see security in studying better and making something from their lives. There is an extraordinary sense of sadness in this whole structure.

This endless race to become the best. There can be only one winner in a 100-meter race, and we all want our children to be this winner. Yet life is not about 100-meter races; it is a long-marathon, just to make an inept sort of comparison, between running and life. Why should every child be reared in order to achieve success in some profession that is perceived by us, â€˜normalâ€™ human beings, as a successful one? What is real success? Was Albert Einstein a failure? Were Agatha Christie, Leonardo da Vinci failures?

Most adults start off with a prejudice when it comes to their childrenâ€™s education. They insist that the childrenâ€™s success depends on the percentages they obtain in the academic report cards. This attitude has to be turned upside down – in some cases at least.The kid like a robot gets up early in the morning and goes through the preset programmes till he goes to sleep. He has no time of his own. The parents play the role of keepers, they judge the kids through the prism of school marks; they have no idea about the talent of their own kid. Without their knowledge they put a barrier to kids’ free thinking.

There is one good movie Taare Zameen par itâ€™s a movie about a child, an eight- or nine-year old boy. Ishan, the boy, The movies movie gives the reawakening of the realisation that every child is a potential star; the realisation that a little more effort on our part can make this world a lot better; the realisation that you can make a difference â€“ if you really wish.in movie the teachers ridicule & dismiss boy

off as an “idiot”, who is genuinely â€˜mischievousâ€™, ‘lazy’ & probably with no aptitute for academics. With a demanding father who wants of sculpt the child into the mould of his ‘achiever’ elder brother, a mother who though loves him is overwhelmed by whatever he does; the kid is sent of to

boarding school. Here too the child builds up a reputation, but now with no family for support he withdraws into himself leaving, giving up his sole vent of expression painting.

Walk-in a sensitive art teacher, Aamir Khan & the child’s world turns around. Who discovers and nurtures his hidden talent painting, thus raising up his self-confidence that had been mercilessly beaten down by the â€˜normalâ€™ educational system.

But its not everytime such art teacher character comes to the child’s world. The question is the validity of our normal perceptions about the world. Why should every child be competitive?

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