{"id":96,"date":"2005-12-20T05:43:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T05:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/?p=96"},"modified":"2005-12-20T05:43:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-20T05:43:00","slug":"one-billion-users-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/one-billion-users-and-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"One Billion Users and Counting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.useit.com\/alertbox\/internet_growth.html\">Via Useit.com:<\/a>Somewhere in 2005 the billionth user of the Internet logged on. Jakob says it could be someone from Shanghai. 36% of the Internet users are from Aisa. 24% are from Europe. Only 23% are from North America. <br \/>Now, you tell me who should control the Internet? And who actually does?<\/p>\n<div class=\"Tags\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/web\" rel=\"tag\">web<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/internet\" rel=\"tag\">internet<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/usability\" rel=\"tag\">usability<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Write to me: Sumank[at]gmail[dot]com<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<map name=\"google_ad_map_061219083801051220054300\">\n<area shape=\"rect\" href=\"http:\/\/imageads.googleadservices.com\/pagead\/imgclick\/061219083801051220054300?pos=0\" coords=\"1,2,367,28\"\/>\n<area shape=\"rect\" href=\"http:\/\/services.google.com\/feedback\/abg\" coords=\"384,10,453,23\"\/><\/map>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" usemap=\"#google_ad_map_061219083801051220054300\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/imageads.googleadservices.com\/pagead\/ads?format=468x30_aff_img&amp;client=ca-pub-1259014363012020&amp;channel=9138153052&amp;output=png&amp;cuid=061219083801051220054300&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Ftw-india.blogspot.com%2F2005%2F12%2Fone-billion-users-and-counting.html\"\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Useit.com:Somewhere in 2005 the billionth user of the Internet logged on. Jakob says it could be someone from Shanghai. 36% of the Internet users are from Aisa. 24% are from Europe. Only 23% are from North America. Now, you tell me who should control the Internet? And who actually does? 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Jakob says it could be someone from Shanghai. 36% of the Internet users are from Aisa. 24% are from Europe. Only 23% are from North America. Now, you tell me who should control the Internet? And who actually does? Technorati tags: web, internet,&hellip;","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Gbk8-1y","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":259,"url":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/the-web-has-one-billion-users-now\/","url_meta":{"origin":96,"position":0},"title":"The web has one billion users now","author":"Suman Kumar","date":"December 20, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Useit.com:Somewhere in 2005 the billionth user of the Internet logged on. Jakob says it could be someone from Shanghai. 36% of the Internet users are from Aisa. 24% are from Europe. Only 23% are from North America. Now, you tell me who should control the Internet? 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