By the time you finish reading this sentence, there will have been 219,000 new Facebook posts, 22,800 new tweets, 7,000 apps downloaded, and about $9,000 worth of items sold on Amazon… depending on your reading speed, of course. Now that the Internet is widely available, just one second of global online activity is jam-packed full of events, from communication with others to data storage to entertainment options galore.
The amount of data uploaded to the Internet in a single second is a staggering 24,000 gigabytes. Cisco forecasts that monthly Internet data will reach 91.3 exabytes – or 1 billion gigabytes – by the year 2016, pushing the amount of online activity even higher.
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