July 1st, 2003



The Top 8 Internet Statistics


8> 2: Total number of dot-coms that have made a profit.

7> 4.3: Average number of seconds between posting a Usenet message and receiving spam at that e-mail address.

6> 2: Average number of people in a newsgroup before a flame-war erupts.

5> 52,913,543,881: Total man-hours lost every week due to rebooting Windows.

4> 12.8: Average number of gigabytes of porn on a 40 gig drive.

3> 45,310: Most lines of text entered “one-handed” in a single cyber-sex session.

2> 2 minutes, 21 seconds: Longest length of time between logging on to AOL and getting logged off by AOL.

and the Number 1 Internet Statistic…

1> 6,437 miles: Length of your penis if you responded to every one of “those” spam ads.




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Credits:

Selected from 53 submissions from 19 contributors.
Today’s Top 5 List authors are:

Doug Crews, San Diego, CA — 1
Matt Van Opens, Kenosha, WI — 2
Kevin van Houten, The Colony, TX — 3
Chuck Burke, Phoenix, NY — 4
Daniel Attema, Adelaide, Australia — 6
Joe Terranova, Lake Orion, MI — 8
Kim Moser, New York, NY — 5, 7, List Moderator, Topic