5. 1985: Born — Internet 2 years old; Nintendo release 'Super Mario Brothers'
1990: Start primary school — WWW being conceived
1992: 7 years old — first SMS message sent
1995: Amazon, eBay founded
1996: Heading towards secondary school — Hotmail launched;
pay‐as‐you‐go mobile tariffs; instant messaging
1998: Teenage years — Google founded
1999: Studying for GCSEs — Napster; Blogger
2001: Wikipedia; iPod
2002: Studying for A Levels — social‐networking services appear
2003: University — Skype
2005: Graduation approaches — YouTube
John Naughton: http://oscal.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/lecture‐text.pdf
See also: http://www.preoccupations.org/2007/05/making_the_poin.html
24. 24 million active users (= active on site in last 30 days)
•
50% of active users return to the site daily
•
100,000 new users join per day
•
45 billion page views per month and growing
•
50 million users, and a lot more page views,
predicted by the end of 2007
http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/06/analyzing_the_f.html#comments
35. Whenever you put data on a computer,
you lose some control over it.
And when you put it on the internet,
you lose a lot of control over it.
Bruce Schneier