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Remember that great video that almost everyone has seen in school showing zooming in and zooming out by 10 orders of magnitude, Calvin was wondering the same thing for computers. So here are some interesting facts:

1. Moore’s Law. Its been going on for thirty years, but every 24 months, the number of transistors in a microprocessor has been doubling. That’s some exponential. Wikipedia’s description is actually better and more complete.
2. Kryder’s Law. A related idea is that the capacity of a hard disk drive increases doubles every 24 months. Actually the rate is increasing right now, as opposed to Moore’s which is predicted to end in a decade.

1. “Butler’s Law” says that the bandwidth of a fiber optic cable doubles every 9 months which is simply amazing and explains why the Internet is so cheap and pervasive.

   Finally, although it can’t go on forever, the actual growth of Internet users sure looks like an exponentials as Internet World Stats shows.

   Internet Systems Consortium does show the number of domain names, a measure of how big the web is can grow exponentially and they have a history to prove it.