Growth of the Internet
Posted in Technicalon Oct 28, 2008
On the LDS Media Talk Blog, there was a post about the growth of the Internet. I wondered if the growth has been increasing or decreasing, or if it is reaching a plateau.
To answer that question, I decided to plot the numbers on a logarithmic scale:
Using a logarithmic scale, it is easy to see the rate of growth. As you can see, up until 1997 there was a very substantial growth. In 1996, for example, the Internet grew by 900%. Between 1998 and 2001 growth slowed so that it only (on average) doubled in each of those years. Since then, we’ve established a slower, yet still substantial rate of doubling only every two or three years.
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