Comscore, a company that tracks internet usage, calculates that 1 billion people who logged on to the world wide web in December 2008 – the first time this number have ever been online in a single month.
The actual number of Web surfers is probably higher than that as comscore said its figures were based only on the number of Internet users aged 15 and above working from home or work computers.
They did not take into account traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or personal digital assistants....