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Size of the internet economy?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (rah@shipwright.com)
Wed Nov 15 21:03:14 1995

Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 16:57:11 -0500
To: bsdc@ai.mit.edu, cypherpunks@toad.com, www-buyinfo@allegra.att.com
From: rah@shipwright.com (Robert A. Hettinga) (by way of rah@shipwright.com (Robert
 Hettinga))

Lately, I heard (somewhere) that $250 million changed hands directly on
the net in 1994, mostly credit cards.

Is this a real number? Where did it come from? What are estimates for 1995?

Cheers,
Bob Hettinga

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