Broken down by region, internet users in 2001 jumped 44% in Asia, 43% in Africa,
33% in Latin America, 33% in Europe and 10% in North America.
Internet use has grown rapidly in India, with 25% growth last year, to one in 147 of the population.
In North and sub-Saharan Africa, 6.7 million people were online last year, or one in every 118 people living on the continent, but excluding South Africa, Egypt, Kenya, Morocco and Tunisian, that figure fell to one in 440, UNCTAD said.
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Other stats-INTERNET USAGE STATISTICS
WebCams are cameras that are connected to the Web. You can link to a site and see what the camera happens to be looking at right now.
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Chatting over web browsers provide new possibilities. For one thing that you can throw in graphics and web links quite easily.
This still requires quite some bandwidth, but it is getting pretty inexpensive
to come by. A $100 Connectix camera and a free CU-SeeMe program gets you going.
It is possible (barely) over a 28.8 modem.
The ability to make phonecalls over the Net could just about put the long-distance
phone companies out of business. However, the quality is still somewhat variable.
Internet Phone - by VocalTec. Windows and now Mac also.
HTML is somewhat limited in being able to lay things out exactly like you want
them. There are various options for including more rich content in web pages.
Shockwave -Macromedia Director plug-in for Netscape.
The Web provides unprecendented possibilities for getting a better overview
of our planet. Specifically there are sites that present you with the big picture
of planet Earth, such as in what is seen from space.
Web forms allows you to fill in test answers or other information about yourself
and immediately get feedback.
The Net has the potential to revolutionize the way we interact with each other
economically. There are several schemes coming out allowing the transfer of
money electronically. PayPal.
Search engine meta-index - (40+) This one covers most of them.
Find out how big the Internet is.
Internet Domain Survey - how many domains are there.
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