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This is great! Really puts things in perspective!
An amazing decade indeed…
I am one of the original users – back when Mosaic sprouted out of the bulletin board systems, before the acronym ISP was coined, BEFORE 56k modems even. The growth rates have been exponential and we knew they would be, to a certain extent, but NOBODY who worked with computers for a liveing in the early 1990′s could even have fathomed the data rates, the throughputs, or the memory and storage capacities and speeds we are seeing today. If we had, there would be no need to transition to IPV6 today!
It is exciting to me to think of what lies ahead – as more and more of the actual design processes are automated, as more and more information becomes readily available to each and every one of us…
Truly, what once took ten years to be obsolete now takes five or less – and ALL of this will continue to accelerat at an exponential rate…
IE 39% in 2012?? :O
Briliant!
4 hours/day??? Who are these people that are only on the interwebs for four hours/day. I would love to be online for only four hours/day.
In my internet connection, i can find all the changes except ONE.
The data transfer speed.
LOL… Top memes for 2012
Rage Comics = L.O.L; Ninjas = Laughing Out Loud!
Download a song… from Kazaa/Limewire in 2002?
Yahoo is no more an open directory.
How Netflix was so popular? Did they had to use this at any time?
Borders & Tower Records are the great place… before it was closed. =(
i am using internet min 12 hours a day
IE is used 39% in 2012?! I can’t believe it.
Just found this…. How about the growth since 1992 or 1982 or 1972???
I first got on the ARPAnet in 1974 or 1975 and I think you can still find my first post on the Usenet that I did in 1984! 
I used the precursors of the Web in the late 1980′s — Gopher, WAIS. I started using Email extensively in the mid 80′s using UUCP — think “!” instead of “@” for email addresses. I think the earliest email I have saved is from 1989!