Internet Facts (Fwd)

[Mel Roseman <mel@LAFN.ORG>]

(Forwarded by Mel Roseman)

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From: bshayler@igc.apc.org (Bob Shayler)
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 1994 21:52:30 -0800

Subject: Internet Index #5


Internet, internet, what's an Internet???

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>Subject: Internet Index #5
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>                          The Internet Index
>                               Number 5
>                    Inspired by "Harper's Index"*
>            Compiled by Win Treese (treese@OpenMarket.com)
>                           31 December 1994
>
>Growth of Gopher traffic in 1993: 1076%
>Growth of Gopher traffic in 1994: 197%
>
>Growth of WWW traffic in 1993: 443,931%
>Growth of WWW traffic in 1994: 1713%
>
>Growth in NSFnet traffic in 1994: 110%
>
>Advertised network numbers in November, 1993: 19,664
>Advertised network numbers in November, 1994: 42,883
>
>Number of Internet access providers with service in Quito, Ecuador: 1
>
>Number of countries reachable by electronic mail in 1993: 137 (approx.)
>Number of countries reachable by electronic mail in 1994: 159 (approx.)
>
>Number of countries on the Internet in 1994: 81
>Number of countries on the Internet in 1993: 60
>
>Number of sites participating in "First Night in Cyberspace": 10
>
>Number of peer-reviewed scholarly journals published electronically
>        on the Internet: over 70
>
>Number of attendees at Internet World, January, 1992: 272
>Number of attendees at Internet World, December, 1994: over 10,000
>
>Number of "cybercafes" in the United Kingdom: 1
>
>Number of subscribers to the ClariNet electronic newspaper: 80,000
>
>Number of FBI cases officially publicized on the Internet: 1
>
>Percentage increase in weight of the 2nd edition of the
>         Canadian Internet Handbook: 280
>
>Number of meetings of the Internet Engineering Task Force, through 1994: 31
>
>Number of US Youth Soccer teams with web pages: 2
>
>On average, number of days between issuing of new Internet RFCs in 1994: 2
>
>Number of phone calls to InterNIC Registration Services during
>        November, 1994: 1,964
>
>Number of Internet messages causing Microsoft to issue a press release
>        denying them: 1
>
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>Copyright 1994 by Win Treese. Send updates or interesting statistics to
>treese@OpenMarket.com.  A copy of the Index annotated with sources can
>be found at
http://www.openmarket.com/info/internet-index/current-sources.html.
>
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Bob Shayler    -   bshayler@igc.apc.org    -or-    BobShayler@aol.com
Teacher of Physics & Integrated Science - California State Telementor
"Schools exist for the benefit of Students, not the other way around"
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