ICT - Ten Years After The Dotcom Boom

The March 2010 issue of Wired Magazine has an interesting piece titled 10 Years After: A Look Back at the Dotcom Boom and Bust. Here's some striking numbers comparing today to ten years ago:

Item	Then (2000)	Now (2010)
ECommerce Sales (Annual)	$19.5 Billion	$156 Billion
Hard Drive Storage (per GB)	$44.50	$0.07
Bandwidth for Streaming Video (per GB)	$193	$0.028
Web Storage (monthly, per GB)	$1,250	$0.15
Domain Registration (per year)	$129	$10
Hosting (monthly per MB)	$2.59	$0.0005
24-pack of Red Bull	$57	$38

Note: Numbers have been adjusted for inflation.

This is only a tiny sample of what is in the March issue - it brings back a lot of memories. Things certainly have changed lots!