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DIGITAL AGE
The digital world has exploded, and it's growing exponentially-
here are just some of the facts on what's happened, what's
happening, and what's to come.
FACT
1993 we use more internet in 1 second
The beginning of the Web as a publicly
available service on the Internet arrived today then we used during the whole
on August 6, 1991, when Berners-Lee the year of 1993
published the first-ever website.
1991-1996
1992- First Smartphone invented 1995- Windows 95 was
Rob Stothard/Getty People didn't start using the supplied with internet
term "smartphone" until 1995, but the first true explorer 3.0 and
smartphone actually made its debut three years had huge
earlier in 1992. market dominance.
2001-2007
2006 The world produces 161
The world produces 5 exabytes of information
2002
exabytes of information
2007- iPhone opens up 2006- Twitter was
2002 a whole new world of apps.
launched and facebook
launchescon the open
596 million internet users. web (created in 2004).
9.1% of the world population.
2013
2012
FACT
PREDICTION
2015 It is predicted that 38% of businesses will
stop providing employees with devices.
Video call
2018- The first exascale
users to
2015-2020 computers will be built,
reach 29m capable of 1 million trillion
calculations per second
76%
globally
Tech company EMC claims
of CIOs will be that, by 2020, the digital
using cloud for 2020 universe will have grown to
their core 40,026 exabytes.
infrastructure in
2015
2020- The number of
smartphones, tablets, and
PCs in use will reach about
7.3 billion units globally