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Cisco has predicted that yearly internet usage will ramp up to 1.3 trillion gigabytes in 2016. That’s huge.

Also the hosts - where places to host a site - have ramped up from 213 in 1981 to the outstanding number of 888,239,000 last year 1. And it will keep this momentum also for the years to come.


This is the growth of hostcount from 1981 to 2010 according to the worldwide internet domain survey.

1981 – 213 
1982 – 235 
1983 – 562 
1984 – 1,204 
1985 – 1,961 
1986 – 5,089 
1987 – 28,174 
1988 – 80,000 
1989 – 159,000 
1990 – 376.000 
1991 – 727,000 
1992 – 1,313,000 
1993 – 2,217,000 
1994 – 5,846,000 
1995 – 14,352,000 
1996 – 21,819,000 
1997 – 29,760,000 
1998 – 43.230,000 
1999 – 72,398.000 
2000 – 109.574,000 
2001 – 147,345,000 
2002 – 171,638,000 
2003 – 233,101,000 
2004 – 317,646,000 
2005 – 394,992,000 
2006 – 433,193,000 
2007 – 541,677,000 
2008 – 625,226,000 
2009 – 732,740,000 
2010 – 818,374,000 
2011 – 888,239,000
  1. Data provided by gandalf.it 

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