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What happened with the Internet in 2009? 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. Email * 90 trillion - The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009. * 247 billion - Average number of email messages per day. * 1.4 billion - The number of email users worldwide. * 100 million - New email users since the year before. * 81% - The percentage of emails that were spam. * 92% - Peak spam levels late in the year. * 24% - Increase in spam since last year. * 200 billion - The number of spam emails per day (assuming 81% are spam). Websites * 234 million - The number of websites as of De...

Though India is known as an IT giant, it has the lowest Internet penetration among countries of the Asia Pacific region, a latest study has revealed. Internet research firm comScore , which studied Net behavior of 10 countries in May, found that only three per cent of India's population used the Internet. South Korea led the pack with 65 per cent of its population using the Internet and was followed by Australia (62 per cent), New Zealand (60 per cent) and Hong Kong (59 per cent). Though China's Internet penetration is only nine per cent it has the biggest online population of 91.5 million people. South Korea also has the most active online population, with the average person using the Internet 17.4 days in a month Playing with Spielberg Ace director out Steven Spiel berg is bringing two video games in partnership with Electronic Arts . One game is code named LMNO and is said to be a breath taking action adventure in traditional Spielberg ‘Indiana Jones' style. The othe...