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The first non-stop transatlantic flight – from Newfoundland to Ireland – took place from June 14-15 1919, and took 16 hours and 27 minutes.1
1 The New York Times — June 1919
Early in 2011, a trend in ‘speed rapping’ videos took off on YouTube, with one of the most popular videos pulling in over a million views in a single day.2
2 YouTube trends blog — July 2011
73 percent of mobile internet users say they’ve encountered a website that was too slow to load.3
3 Kissmetrics — 2011
By 2020 we will be connecting at speeds of 1GB/sec. That’s 500 times faster than current speeds in the US.4
4 Google Internal Data — June 2011
Mobile search is growing at an exponential rate, increasing five-fold worldwide in the past two years – a rate comparable to the early days of desktop Google search.5
5 Inside Search Event — June 2011
Countries like South Korea, Lithuania, and Latvia regularly top the rankings in world broadband speed. The US does not make it into the top 10.6
6 Speedtest.net
The Milky Way is rotating at a speed of 599,996 mph.7
7 Agence France-Presse — January 2009
Tillman the English Bulldog is the fastest skateboarding dog on record – he covered a 100m stretch of car park in a time of 19.678 seconds in Los Angeles.8
8 The Guiness Book of World Records — July 2009
When Bruce Lee started filming The Green Hornet in 1966, the director asked him to slow down his moves because they were too fast for the cameras.9
9 The Bruce Lee Foundation
Half of ecommerce shoppers expect a page to load in two seconds or less.10
10 Akamai — September 2009
NASA’s X-43A scramjet set the new world record for fastest jet-powered aircraft, flying at Mach 9.6, or nearly 7,000 mph.11
11 NASA
Google’s Lady Gaga Chrome ad helped attract more than 200 million browser downloads and was created in less than a week from start to finish.12
12 Google Internal Data
Today, 60 percent of all YouTube videos go live in under one minute — a year ago, no videos were being processed that quickly.13
13 Christian Kaiser, via TechCrunch — August 2011
The current version of Google Chrome is six times faster than its original beta.14
14 Google Internal Data
