Hi,

you can read this in November on http://blog.openstreetmap.de/2010/11/osm-wochennotiz-nr-19/ and in osm.wiki/Community_Updates/2010-11-22

This was the 1billionth node, the node with the number 1 000 000 000.
Now there is 1 000 000 000 (and counting...) nodes in the database. This isn't the same thing as nodes have been deleted from the database.

osm.org/browse/node/1000000000
yay.

Shame it had to be an import bot rather than a real user that got it.

@Strash Where can I see how much counted nodes are present.

@mgehling Just follow the link on the first post.
osm.org/stats/data_stats.html