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var wholemessage='<div align=left><b>Internet User will surpass 1 Billion in 2005</b> <br><br>The number of Internet users surpassed 400 million in 2000 and will continue to grow strongly in the next five years. <br><br>In 2001 total 544 million people became Internet users. <br><br>Much of the growth in Internet users is taking place outside the U.S. <br><br>China will surpass Japan and become second to the U.S. in number of Internet users by 2003.<br><br>Most of the growth is coming from Asia, Latin America and parts of Europe. <br><br>By year-end 2005 the number of worldwide Internet users will nearly triple to 1.17 billion<br> <i>Buffalo Grove IL, 2001</i>. <br><br>Malaysia has about 2.6 million internet subscribers and an estimated 7.8 million users. <i>(NITC 2003)</i><br><br>Malaysia’s  business-to-business e-commerce was expected to hit US$3.9 Billion in 2005 from US$11.7 million in 2000. <i>(Datuk Amar Leo Moggie, Minister of Energy, Communications and Multimedia)</i><br><br>Total Malaysia e-commerce revenue was US$383.5 million in 2000, making up 16% of the total Asia e-commerce revenues of US$2.4 billion. <i>(Star 2003)</i><br><br>Number of internet dial-up users ini Malaysia would reach 4.5 million by June 2005, growing from 405,000 in 1998 to 2.7 million in June 2003. <i>(Datuk Amar Leo Moggie, Minister of Energy, Communications and Multimedia)</i><br><br>“It is estimated that almost one billion people around the world will be using the Internet by 2005, driving e-commerce revenues to over US$5 trillion and online spending worldwide will more than triple to US$69 billion in that year.” <i>(Datuk Amar Leo Moggie, Minister of Energy, Communications and Multimedia)</i></div>'