Exabyte...

[Larry Gude]

...in an otherwise tediously boring, even to me, article;

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/23/AR2007052301418.html

...there were some neat facts;

Electricity reached one-quarter of Americans 46 years after its introduction. Telephones took 35 years and televisions 26 years. Already, in just six years, broadband has reached 25 percent penetration, according to McKinsey & Co.

BTW, 'exabyte' = 1,074,000,000 gigs. (One BILLION gigabytes)

Two exabytes equal the total volume of information generated in 1999. The Internet currently handles one exabyte of data every hour.