Internet Users Then and Now

1997-07 Total Internet Users with percentage of users 1. USA 51,857,142 (19.1%) 2. Japan 8,726,878 (6.88%) 3. Germany 4,048,747 (4.97%) 4. United Kingdom 3,398,697 (5.83%) 5. Canada 1,313,840 (4.11%) 6. France 2,029,319 (3.46%) 7. Netherlands 1,836,369 (11.96%) 8. Australia 1,687,871 (10.13%) 9. Sweden 1,464,362 (16.73%) 10. South Korea 1,225,127 (2.66%) 11. Finland 1,044,352 (20.63%) 12. Italy 960,668 (1.68%) 13. Ireland 935,536 (18.18%) 14. Norway 854,523 (19.39%) 15. Spain 842,894 (2.10%) 16. Switzerland 713,723 (10.07%) 17. Austria 664,903 (8.28%) 18. Poland 655,972 (1.70%) 19. India 385,646 (0.06%) 20. Russia 556,210 (0.37%) The first workable prototype of the Internet came in the 1960s with the creation of ARPANET. WORLD 100,268,757 2018-12 Total Internet Users with percentage of users China 801,919,657 (56.83%) India 503,457,010 (36.79%) USA 292,131,734 (88.86%) Brazil 148,811,966 (70.17%) Russia 115,845,450 (80.47%) Japan 114,818,917 (90.73%) Indonesia 105,800,416 (39.28%) Nigeria 96,745,274 (49.11%) Mexico 86,903,457 (65.94%) Germany 79,360,137 (97.73%) Philippines 69,749,309 (65.59%) Vietnam 66,906,434 (69.34%) United Kingdom 63,663,209 (94.91%) Turkey 58,365,357 (70.51%) Iran 57,361,676 (69.52%) France 53,226,136 (81.91%) South Korea 49,058,180 (95.94%) Egypt 46,055,407 (46.76%) Italy 44,645,373 (74.43%) Spain 40,145,775 (85.99%) By 2018, over half of the global population gained access to the internet. WORLD 4,143,081,811

A two-panel infographic compares total internet users in July 1997 with December 2018. The joke is the dramatic explosion in global internet adoption: countries that had only a small number of users in 1997 became major online populations by 2018, making the uploader’s caption “Everything makes sense now” a reaction to the scale of the transformation.

• @gentoomemes / 13123 2024-09-02