2,549,000 GB
OF DATA ARE TRANSFERRED3,300,000
FACEBOOK POSTS
ARE UPLOADEDAbout 67%
of this is
SPAM!IN ONE
MINUTE
ON THE
INTERNET
2000 2005 2010 20162016:
3.5 billion2000:
414 million2005:
1 billion2010:
2 billionNUMBER OF INTERNET
USERS WORLDWIDEAbout 7%
of the world’s
populationAbout 46%
of the world’s
population154,131,000
EMAILS ARE SENT4,101,000
YOUTUBE VIDEOS ARE VIEWED46,000
PHOTOS ARE UPLOADED
TO INSTAGRAM149,000
SKYPE CALLS
ARE MADE452,000
TWEETS ARE WRITTEN
4,167,000
FACEBOOK LIKES
ARE GENERATED20 Australian GeographicWeb and f low
Infographic
FOR THOSE battling overflowing inboxes, spare a
thought for the internet. The amount of data that
passes through the World Wide Web is truly mind-
boggling – and continues to grow as more and more
people connect and bandwidths grow. In the 60
seconds you might spend looking at this graphic,
this is what’s happening online...BASED ON 2016 STATS; SOURCE:http://www.internetlivestats.com; FACEBOOKlooking up
Naked eye
Rising in the
eastern evening sky is
the teapot of Sagittarius,
tilted over and standing
on its ‘handle’. To its left
is a bright ‘star’ easily
outshining the members
of this group. It is the
planet Saturn. You will
need a small telescope
to see its famous rings.Binoculars
Each day the
Moon occults – obscures- many stars, by passing
in front of them. This is
usually very faint. But on
4 May, the bright star
Regulus winks out behind
a dark lunar limb: best
viewed from eastern
states and disappearing
about 8pm EST.
Small telescope
Above Sagitta-
rius is the distinctive
constellation Scorpius,
the Scorpion. Below the
‘stinger’ of its tail lie two
hazy patches, which are
open star clusters. M7
is more obvious, clearly
larger and composed of
brighter stars compared
with its companion M6.Glenn Dawes is a
co-author of the
yearbook Astronomy
2017 Australia
(Quasar Publishing).x1 x10 x10 0with Glenn Dawes