{"id":487,"date":"2006-09-15T13:33:57","date_gmt":"2006-09-15T18:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2006\/09\/15\/size-of-the-internet-in-the-us\/"},"modified":"2006-09-15T13:33:57","modified_gmt":"2006-09-15T18:33:57","slug":"size-of-the-internet-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=487","title":{"rendered":"Size of the Internet in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"

No one knows how many people seriously use the Internet, right? Pshaw. I can give you bounds on that number in the US, easily.<\/p>\n

Serenity<\/i>‘s US gross<\/a>: $25,335,935
\nAverage US ticket price<\/a> for 2005: $6.41
\nNumber of people seeing Serenity<\/i>: 3,950,000<\/p>\n

Snakes on a Plane<\/i>‘s US gross<\/a>: $31,561,108
\nAverage US ticket price for 2006 (estimated): $6.60
\nNumber of people seeing Snakes on a Plane<\/i>: 4,780,000<\/p>\n

So roughly 4.4 million people, or about 1.5% of the current US population<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Don’t you love Fermi problems<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No one knows how many people seriously use the Internet, right? Pshaw. I can give you bounds on that number in the US, easily. Serenity‘s US gross: $25,335,935 Average US ticket price for 2005: $6.41 Number of people seeing Serenity: 3,950,000 Snakes on a Plane‘s US gross: $31,561,108 Average US ticket price for 2006 (estimated): … Continue reading Size of the Internet in the US<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t