| Will the world of internet grow further than what is | | | | from December 2001 to December 2006. After their |
| now? What will be the volume of internet in the next | | | | extensive study and research they claim that the |
| five years? It is predicted that the size of the internet | | | | Internet is going to get double in size every 5.35 years |
| would double every five years. And this is being | | | | or so. This is much higher than Moore’s 18 month |
| researched and calculated by Chinese researchers | | | | law, but it represents the same exponential growth |
| now. There was one famous Moore’s Law stated | | | | pattern. |
| by the famous Intel founder Gordon Moore. | | | | But this contradicts the data that was released by |
| He predicted that the number of transistors on a CPU | | | | Netcraft which tells about the growth of internet a |
| would double every eighteen months. This was the | | | | different tale. There have been evidences of growth |
| law put forward by Moore in 1965 and this proved to | | | | of Internet at much faster rate and the hostname |
| be true for almost half century. Now this law is the | | | | growth in merely two years is a significant indication |
| model which is being taken into account to predict the | | | | that it is not necessary for 5.35 years to growth twice. |
| future technology trends. | | | | It can grow in less than this period. |
| The present Chinese researchers are there to believe | | | | You can download the full version of this paper on the |
| that the internet growth too can be predicted well with | | | | growth of Internet from "Evolution of the Internet and |
| the help of Moore’s law and the variant of it. They | | | | its cores" in PDF format. |
| have collected the data at an interval of six months | | | | |