[165009] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How big is the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugen Leitl)
Thu Aug 15 14:19:07 2013
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 20:18:28 +0200
From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:30:24PM -0400, Scott Howard wrote:
> 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.
Sure enough -- but people might be no longer the prime movers and
shakers, with increased automation.
