I fondly recall my first experiences with the internet in college using Mosiac and terminals to send and receive email. Oregon State has a great computer lab donated by nearby HP which had the latest PCs (386!) and dot matrix printers. I never realized the internet had already been around some 30 years. Kudos to OnlineSchools.org for putting it all together in a graphical timeline.
Interesting statistics on the growth of the internet. Facebook continues its dominance (6 million page views a minute) and incredible growth (350+ million users). Incredible. Another stat that I find alarming is out of the 247 billion emails sent a day, 200 billion are spam!
JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo.
Some great stats represented in a very informative infographic from focus.com

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