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How the world went online

Within a single working life, computing went from a room-sized expense to something most people carry. The numbers behind that shift are steep enough that they are hard to picture: the price of storage, the number of people online, the users a new app gathers in its first years.

These clips follow that growth and show how much of it now runs through a few companies.

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5 in this series

01
Length 0:57
How fast the world went online and mobile
57 secondsHistory & records
02
Length 0:41
Guess what 1 gigabyte of PC storage cost in 1980
41 secondsInternet & apps
03
Length 0:36
Samsung and Apple now sell 43% of the world's phones
36 secondsInternet & apps
04
Length 0:33
The ChatGPT app hit 1 billion monthly users in about 3 years
33 secondsAI and tech
05
Length 0:41
Google gets 21.7 billion more visits than the next four sites combined
41 secondsAI and tech

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5 in this series

How fast the world went online and mobile

Guess what 1 gigabyte of PC storage cost in 1980

Samsung and Apple now sell 43% of the world's phones

The ChatGPT app hit 1 billion monthly users in about 3 years

Google gets 21.7 billion more visits than the next four sites combined