Over 93 percent of the information produced in 1999 was in digital
format
Print, film, magnetic, and optical storage media produced about 5
exabytes of new information in
2002.
– How big is five exabytes?
Library
of Congress= 17 million books
The
web=17 libraries the size of LC book collection
5
Exabytes= 37,000 libraries the size of LC book collection.
–
Some 10,000 new Web sites are launched daily (Source: Business Week, June 21, 1999)
As of November 2000 there were 26,161,187 web pages
As of November 2004 there were 44,158,128 web pages
The daily New York Times now contains more information that the 17th century man or woman would have encountered in a
lifetime. (Wurman, S.A.
(1987) Information Anxiety. New York: Doubleday, 32.)