[43453] in Cypherpunks
Re: Size of the internet economy?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter F Cassidy)
Wed Nov 15 21:15:29 1995
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 18:38:08 +0001 (EST)
From: Peter F Cassidy <pcassidy@world.std.com>
Reply-To: Peter F Cassidy <pcassidy@world.std.com>
To: "Robert A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
Cc: bsdc@ai.mit.edu, cypherpunks@toad.com, www-buyinfo@allegra.att.com
In-Reply-To: <v02120d00acd0125e6d8b@[199.0.65.105]>
On Wed, 15 Nov 1995, Robert A. Hettinga wrote:
> 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? > Everything on the net is
outside of a lot of traditional metrics and hard to authenticate even if
it were simple to measure. Forrester sites 250 million retail and $90
million in content revenues. By contrast, guys selling a piece of pipe
raked in $1.5 billion.
Activmedia - www.activmedia.com - does regular surveys. I just got a
breathless press release for their latest one - "WEB COMMERCE UP 1900%."
Someone must have bought tickets the lastest George Forman comeback fight
or something from a ticketron on-line kiosk. . .
Ole,
Peter
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