What happened with the Internet in 2009?
Pingdom.com has your answers.
How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many Internet users were there? This post will answer all of those questions and many more. Prepare for information overload, but in a good way. 
We have used a wide variety of sources from around the Web. A full list of source references is available at the bottom of the post for those interested. We here at Pingdom also did some additional calculations to get even more numbers to show you.
A Few of the headlines are:
90 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009.
47 million – Added websites in 2009.
35.0% – The growth of Google GFE websites in 2009.
187 million – The number of domain names across all top-level
domains (October 2009).
domains (October 2009).
1.73 billion – Internet users worldwide (September 2009).
126 million – The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse).
2.5 billion – Photos uploaded each month to Facebook.
1 billion – The total number of videos YouTube serves in one day.
921,143 – The number of new malicious code signatures added by Symantec in Q4 2009.
Read the rest here.
http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/01/22/internet-2009-in-numbers/
