firefox 3, 7 days, 20 million downloads

We're seven days after the launch of Firefox 3 and we've already exceeded 20 million downloads.

This is pretty amazing to me. I really can't even picture 20 million people. I was trying to close my eyes and see a crowd of 20 million and I just couldn't.

I tried first to imagine a really large stadium, new Wembly or the L.A. Coliseum for example, (both ~90K seats.). I can picture that in my mind's eye. But I can't quite make a picture of 200 of those :-)

Next I started thinking about a really big city like Seoul, New York, or Mexico City but even a satellite view that shows the whole thing doesn't give me a building scale, much less a human scale.

It's just too big a number for me to visualize at a human scale and I find that wonderfully amazing.

Trying to picture all of the Firefox users in the world, over 180,000,000 is just insane.

Firefox is literally bigger than I could possibly imagine ;-)

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