Jon's History 390 Blog

http://search.proquest.com.mutex.gmu.edu/docview/214814054/fulltextPDF/13937CFE1423FC83447/2?accountid=14541

Study that attempts to survey the internets size and composition in its infancy in 1995. Mainly looks at the number of users in the US who had internet access at that time. A good look at where the internet began and what it looked like almost 20 years ago.

http://search.proquest.com.mutex.gmu.edu/docview/194538913/fulltextPDF/13937D4626D26DE8EE9/2?accountid=14541

Forecasts the growth of the internet in 2003 right at the outset of the high speed era when web communication really took off.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Total_data_consumed_by_Opera_Mini_users_worldwide_(TB).png

Not from a database but I wasn’t finding any images that visually captured the rate at which the internet is growing. This graph is showing users using Opera Mini, a mobile phone browser and how their numbers have grown in the past few years. Mobile phones and tablets are how most of us are going to access the web in the future so I thought examining that growth would be very important.

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