The Internet is a busy “place,” what with all that data running across the virtual landscape.
Here’s a quick snapshot at what kind of traffic it handles on a daily basis:
• Data. Enough information flows through the Internet in a 24-hour period to fill 168 million DVDs.
• Email. The U.S. Postal Service would need two years to process the 294 billion emails sent daily.
• Blogs. They’re everywhere! Two million blog entries are posted on a typical day.
• Facebook. Approximately 172 million people visit Facebook in a day, spending a total of 4.7 billion minutes, updating 532 million statuses, and uploading 250 million photos.
• Video. Web surfers watch 22 million hours of video on Netflix every day; 864,000 hours worth of video are uploaded to YouTube.
• Music. People listen to 187.6 million hours of music streamed from Pandora in a day; if a time-traveling computer went back to the year 1 A.D. to stream that much, the music would still be coming today.