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kortillalast Monday at 4:00 AM1 replyview on HN

Doesn’t pass the smell test. “Billions” is >2 billion. There weren’t that many people online when iPhone came out with its famous flash ban. https://ourworldindata.org/internet


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radleylast Monday at 4:24 AM

Your source shows 1.36 billion people using the internet in 2007. In English, when we say "in the billions" it means more than a billion.