Online Population now Half Billion

mattvd writes "According to CNN, the number of people with Web access at home by the end of 2001 was 498 million." Not surprisingly, Asia is growing the fastest. It's amazing that in only 10 years or so, the net has exploded so far, so fast, and now touches 10% of the earths population.

On Spam.

[forged]

Let's hope all these new sexy users won't spam my mailbox [mailto] more than it is already :)

Half of Half a Billion

[slipkid]

...And, in related news, half of the Online Population still believe that "the Internet" and "AOL" are synonymous (the same half, incidentally, who thought 'The Net' was a great film).

1/2 a billion...

[SuperCal]

I find it amazing that there could be half a billion people online and I still can't find decent content... Slashdot excluded of cource.

Re:Half of Half a Billion

[slipkid]

Only in the loosest sense of the word...

Re:Pretty close

[Dephex Twin]

With the current population 5,995,544,836

Man, the census has gotten accurate in recent years!

mark

Re:Pretty close

[inerte]

I don't know about you, but I am hoping this weekend I will lower this percentage.

It's just too bad

[suckwhat]

...that some of these people haven't downloaded the latest version of the Internet. I actually went out the other day to buy a new version of the Internet, and the sales guy looked at me like I was stupid. So I smacked him.

Re:Pretty close

[inerte]

Total, of course, but the results might only come in nine months :-)

Re:AOL Market Share?

[Anonymous Coward]

Me too!

Re:Wait

[Nehemiah S.]

They arent stupid, they know we dominate the culture of the internet and our culture is about capitalism and greed, They want to improve their own economy not ours, so it makes sense for them to do what they are doing.


And if you really believe that, I've got a bridge in Xinjiang I'll sell you, dirt cheap. US dollars only, please.

(tempering the flame with an honest question: How can you improve an economy without learning about capitalism? The Chinese gov't has only one thing in mind when it censors the internet, and it isn't economic expansion through protection of domestic entrepreneurs.)

Re:Slashdot/Asia?

[President Chimp Toe]

Consider it done :-) [slashdot.jp]

So this is the product of half a billion net users, spread far and wide across the globe? Yep, now we have cross-cultural trolling.

Modded down on two continents at once, now that is what i call trolling....

Half a Billion People - What's the Draw?

[Petersko]

1. Pornography

2. Gambling

3. Trolling for fights without fear of getting punched

4. Pornography

5. Easy chatting and email with friends

6. Endless time-wasting opportunity

7. Pornography

8. Groups for almost any conceivable interest

9. Pornography

What's not to like?

Re:Speed it up

[Anonymous Coward]

It will be easier with less people

Unless you plan to chop those people up and weigh the total, it is fewer people. Knowing the difference might make you more attractive to chicks.

Re:We're Gonna Need a Bigger MMORPG

[vlad_rodionov]

>I'd like to think it would be something easier to pronounce this time around, but it will probably end up being >WWSMEPOOSRPG (World Wide Super Mega Entire Population On One Server Role Playing Game).

My guess it will be called... The Matrix...

Have to update my spam ad...

[ch-chuck]

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Re:Usability still an issue

[Teh Grammar Patroll]

Your post, however interesting and insightful, is very difficult to read due to the lack of paragraphs.

Proper usage of paragraphs is tricky. It can be difficult to know exactly when is the right time to begin a new thought. It is also quite difficult to transition smoothly from one paragraph to the next, thus giving your work a thread of continuity.

However, with practice, I'm sure you can get it right; you already show great promise in expressing your thoughts in written form.

Re:Slashdot/Asia?

[IamTheRealMike]

Babelfish had fun with this one...

• (Score: 2, it is strange funny)
• The | parent comment which writes the reply [ vis-a-vis this ]
• "The nest it does" and "the even way" for sorting messages. I like the sound of the even way.
• and.. It has been said S0R5, " article of the Yomiuri Shimbun Company (ahead linking Yahoo! News) according to, before pouring radiation, when the beer is drunk, it was found that it is the possibility where it can prevent the obstacle due to being bombed so is. If it can prevent truly, being to be funny, it does, if you want to know, but whether the above that you happen to think such a thing with something. "

I love the fish!