A brief insight into the history of Google by Google. Some interesting facts like Adwords only launched to 350 members now it is one of the biggest ad networks in the world.
Below is a news article from CBC in Canada from the early 1990's when the Internet had around 15 million users. Back then people were shocked at the rapid take-up however this figure pales in comparison to the 360 million1 people that were using the Internet in 2000 and 1.6 billion1 today. This 362% increase over the last 9 years brings the total number of Internet users to only 25% of the worldwide population. So if you have not been taking the Internet seriously for your business then maybe its about time because there is plenty of room for rapid growth for the Internet and your business.
This is a great explaination of how the Internet has become what it is today with billions of users. It explains the founding networks that gave birth to the Internet.