{"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":"<p>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<p><i>Serenity<\/i>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0379786\/business\">US gross<\/a>: $25,335,935<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.natoonline.org\/statisticstickets.htm\">Average US ticket price<\/a> for 2005: $6.41<br \/>\nNumber of people seeing <i>Serenity<\/i>: 3,950,000<\/p>\n<p><i>Snakes on a Plane<\/i>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0417148\/business\">US gross<\/a>: $31,561,108<br \/>\nAverage US ticket price for 2006 (estimated): $6.60<br \/>\nNumber of people seeing <i>Snakes on a Plane<\/i>: 4,780,000<\/p>\n<p>So roughly 4.4 million people, or about 1.5% of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/\">current US population<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t you love <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fermi_problem\">Fermi problems<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8216;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&#8216;s US gross: $31,561,108 Average US ticket price for 2006 (estimated): &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=487\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Size of the Internet in the US<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}