About how many internet users are there worldwide today?
Answerabout 6 billion (74% of world)
Roughly three out of every four people on Earth are now online.
Source: Wikipedia - Global Internet usage (2025) en.wikipedia.org
Tech · Facts & sources
Data facts & stats
5 sourced facts about digital data and how much of it exists, each with the context behind the number. 4 more are in today's round and appear here after it closes.
The basics
Going deeper
IDC estimated global data volume grew from 4.4 zettabytes in 2013 to about how much by 2020?
Answerabout 44 zettabytes
That's a tenfold increase in data volume in under a decade.
Source: Wikipedia - Big data (2020) en.wikipedia.org
About how many searches was Google handling per day, as of 2012?
Answermore than 3.5 billion per day
Google's search volume has only grown since, but even in 2012 it handled billions of queries daily.
Source: Wikipedia - Google Search (2012) en.wikipedia.org
Expert level
About how much data was being generated worldwide every day, as of 2012?
Answerabout 2.5 exabytes per day
An exabyte is a billion gigabytes — this was the daily pace of data creation over a decade ago.
Source: Wikipedia - Big data (2012) en.wikipedia.org
In what year did the first message travel over ARPANET, the internet's predecessor?
Answer1969
The first transmission, between UCLA and Stanford, was meant to spell 'login' but crashed after just two letters, 'lo'.
Source: Wikipedia - ARPANET (2024) en.wikipedia.org
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