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John Battelle: The Internet Is Rated X/Y

To illustrate the sustaining growth of the Internet, Federated Media’s John Battelle showed a nifty X/Y axis chart. The chart shows a constant rate of growth.

“I’ve been showing this since 1991,” Battelle quipped, adding that the chart has “never not been true. “The Internet is still growing.”

The reasons for its growth keep changing, however.

The current stimulus isn’t coming from the major portals that drove its expansion during 1.0 and much of 2.0, but it is coming from an “incredible robust array of sites.”

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