COVER WORK

1) he "surface" Web consists of approximately 2.5 billion documents up from 1 billion pages at the beginning of the year , with a rate of growth of 7.3 million pages per day  Estimates of the average "surface" page size vary in the range from 10 kbytes . , the total amount of information on the "surface" Web varies somewhere from 25 to 50 terabytes of information [HTML-included basis]. If we want to obtain a figure for textual information, we would use a factor of 0.4 [4], which leads to an estimate of 10 to 20 terabytes of textual content. At 7.3 million new pages added every day, the rate of growth is [taking an average estimate] 0.1 terabytes of new information [HTML-included] per day.
http://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info/internet.html


2)http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

WORLD INTERNET USAGE AND POPULATION STATISTICS December 31, 2011
World Regions	Population ( 2011 Est.)	Internet Users Dec. 31, 2000	Internet Users Latest Data	Penetration (% Population)	Growth 2000-2011	Users % of Table
Africa	1,037,524,058	4,514,400	139,875,242	13.5 %	2,988.4 %	6.2 %
Asia	3,879,740,877	114,304,000	1,016,799,076	26.2 %	789.6 %	44.8 %
Europe	816,426,346	105,096,093	500,723,686	61.3 %	376.4 %	22.1 %
Middle East	216,258,843	3,284,800	77,020,995	35.6 %	2,244.8 %	3.4 %
North America	347,394,870	108,096,800	273,067,546	78.6 %	152.6 %	12.0 %
Latin America / Carib.	597,283,165	18,068,919	235,819,740	39.5 %	1,205.1 %	10.4 %
Oceania / Australia	35,426,995	7,620,480	23,927,457	67.5 %	214.0 %	1.1 %
WORLD TOTAL	6,930,055,154	360,985,492	2,267,233,742	32.7 %	528.1 %	100.0 %

3)

December, 1995	16 millions	0.4 %	IDC

http://www.internetworldstats.com/emarketing.htm

NATURE OF INFORMATION

-http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/6207343/Ways-the-web-has-changed-the-world.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/23/internet-40-history-arpanet

"It's impossible to say for certain when the internet began, mainly because nobody can agree on what, precisely, the internet is. (This is only partly a philosophical question: it is also a matter of egos, since several of the people who made key contributions are anxious to claim the credit.) "

Unless you are 15 years old or younger, you have lived through the dotcom bubble and bust, the birth of Friends Reunited and Craigslist and eBay and Facebook and Twitter, blogging, the browser wars, Google Earth, filesharing controversies, the transformation of the record industry, political campaigning, activism and campaigning, the media, publishing, consumer banking, the pornography industry, travel agencies, dating and retail; and unless you're a specialist, you've probably only been following the most attention-grabbing developments

 

Communication:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2332339,00.asp

http://money.howstuffworks.com/technology-changed-business.htm

"But as much as our personal lives have changed, the business world has revolutionized almost beyond recognition in the past few decades. Technology -- and we mean the advances in communication and information technology -- has changed the face and the pace of business."

For many of us, communicating with family used to mean sending letters and cards through the mail and getting no response until weeks later. We'd pass hand-written notes to friends in class.

Privacy:

http://articles.cnn.com/2000-01-02/tech/internet.privacy_1_internet-privacy-web-sites-personal-data?_s=PM:TECH

http://articles.cnn.com/2012-05-17/us/us_ftc-twitter-privacy_1_twitter-users-internet-privacy-privacy-policies?_s=PM:US

A Federal Trade Commission official announced that Twitter users will be able block personal data from being shared with third-party websites.
Experts say privacy concerns may be the thorniest legislative and legal issues that lie ahead for Internet users.

Community : http://articles.cnn.com/2005-06-23/tech/evolution.main_1_netscape-browser-world-wide-web?_s=PM:TECH
http://www.workingnurse.com/articles/how-the-internet-has-changed-nursing

business:
http://briangosur.hubpages.com/hub/The-Internet-Has-Completely-Changed-The-Way-We-Do-Business
http://smallbiztrends.com/2005/06/top-five-ways-internet-has-changed.html