In 1965 Intel founder Gordon E. Moore predicted that computer circuit size would double every two years – exponential growth that is holding true today. That growth has contributed to the explosion of miraculous computer-enabled breakthroughs like global positioning, digital imaging, the human genome project, cell phone systems, powerful laptop computers, the IPhone, and the Internet.

Did you know it took radio 38 years to reach 50 million people, television 13 years, the Internet 4 years, the IPod 3 years, and Facebook 2 years? And, with remarkable speed we just hit another global landmark.

On January 23, 2009 the Internet, just over 6,000 days old, had its BIG birthday announcing 1 billion global visitors into its foray.

According to Comscore, a leader in digital measurement, 41% of the share of users are from the Asia-Pacific region, 28% from Europe, 18% from North America, 7% Latin-America and 5% from the Middle East.

By country, China leads with 18% of visitors with the United States close behind at 16%. Canada in comparison was ranked 11th at 2.2% of global usage or 22,000,000 visitors. (2 out 3 people in Canada use the Internet – not bad).

Google was the most popular site with 778 million visitors, Microsoft had 648 million and Yahoo had 562 million visitors. The most popular social networking site was Facebook having grown by 127% over last years survey. They boast 222 million visitors.

Now these numbers are especially interesting when you consider that they do not include visitors accessing the Internet from their mobile phones or PDAs. According to the newly released Ipsos Reid research paper “The Face of the Web”, Internet access via mobile is actually outpacing wireless access from a PC. They indicate 28% of mobile owners are currently accessing the web. If you consider that half the world owns a cell phone (3.3 billion) this means that there are potentially 820 million additional visitors accessing the Internet via mobile.

Do you hear the “ring” around the world?