[165002] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How big is the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Howard)
Thu Aug 15 12:30:58 2013
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Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 12:30:24 -0400
From: Scott Howard <scott@doc.net.au>
To: Glen Turner <gdt@gdt.id.au>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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You'd almost think this was a technology mailing list given some of the
answers... (ohh.. wait!)
How about this - the size of the Internet is just short of 3 billion.
That's the number of people that have access to it. To me, that's a far
more telling number than anything around IP address or Exabytes of data.
Scott
