The Decade In Data

Our way of life has increasingly moved into bits and bytes.

BURLINGAME, Calif. -- All around us is evidence that we've been living in a decade ruled by 1's and 0's. A household in the U.S. is now 10 times more likely to have a broadband connection than in 2000. And analog cameras, music and media players have become quaint rarities during this past decade, replaced by their increasingly pervasive digital counterparts.

Here's a list that compares key data points from 2000 to 2009, or the latest available figures.

--Percentage of U.S. households with a broadband connection in 2000: 6.3%

--Percentage of U.S. households with a broadband connection in 2008: 63%

--Number of e-mails sent per day in 2000: 12 billion

--Number of e-mails sent per day in 2009: 247 billion

--Revenues from mobile data services in the first half of 2000: $105 million

--Revenues from mobile data services in the first half of 2009: $19.5 billion

--Number of text messages sent in the U.S. per day in June 2000: 400,000

--Number of text messages sent in the U.S. per day in June 2009: 4.5 billion

--Percentage of U.S. households with at least one digital camera in 2000: 10%

--Percentage of U.S. households with at least one digital camera in 2008: 68.4%

--Percentage of U.S. households with at least one MP3 player in 2000: less than 2%

--Percentage of U.S. households with at least one MP3 player in 2008: almost 43%

--Number of pages indexed by Google in 2000: 1 billion

--Number of pages indexed by Google in 2008: 1 trillion

--Number of Google searches per day in 2001: 10 million

--Number of Google searches in 2009: 300 million, estimated

--Number of total Wikipedia entries in 2001: 20,000

--Number of Wikipedia entries in English in 2009: 3.1 million

--Number of blogs in 2000: less than 100,000

--Number of blogs 2008: 133 million

--Minimum free hard-disk space needed to install Windows 2000: 650 megabytes

--Minimum available hard-disk space needed to install Windows 7: 16,000 megabytes (16 gigabytes)

--Amount of hard-disk space $300 could buy in 2000: 20 to 30 gigabytes

--Amount of hard-disk space $300 could buy in 2009: 2,000 gigabytes (2 terabytes)

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