Top Countries By Number of Internet Users: 1990-2019

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUHOeObudlI

The video chart above shows the stunning growth in both the total number of internet users between 1900 and 2019 and which countries had the largest total internet population.

In 1990, things looked rather different from today. Here are the top 10 countries and the number of users per country:

  1. United States: 1,981,674
  2. Canada: 99,970
  3. Australia: 99,709
  4. Germany: 99,604
  5. Sweden: 50,050
  6. Netherlands: 50,043
  7. UK: 49,953
  8. Switzerland: 39,763
  9. France: 30,063
  10. Norway: 30,041

By 2019 both the mix of countries and total number of users have changed dramatically. Tiếp tục đọc “Top Countries By Number of Internet Users: 1990-2019”

The internet is… saved??!!

Dear Avaaz movement,

For 7 years we’ve fought corporate giants to save the internet, and it’s looking like WE’VE WON!!!!!

First in the US, then Brazil, India and now here’s what the top French official (and key swing vote) told us last week before he announced the EU law safeguarding the internet for half a billion people:

Sebastien Soriano
“I must confess that some of these tweets and messages that I received made me emotional… people asking me to “Save the Internet” and “Stop corporate capture…” I really wanted to respond to them.”
— Sebastien Soriano, Head of French Internet Regulator ARCEP

Officials announcing the law showed charts of unprecedented numbers of public comments – up to 640 per minute, the overwhelming majority from Avaaz!

Corporations wanted a fast internet for the mega-rich, and a slow one for the rest of us. We fought for the principle of “net neutrality” – equal internet for all! Tiếp tục đọc “The internet is… saved??!!”