[10637] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Demographics of the Internet.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Rutkowski)
Thu Mar 3 04:03:54 1994
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 1994 06:47:57 +0500
To: Niels Jonker <niels@opup.org>, com-priv@psi.com
From: Tony Rutkowski <amr@isoc.org>
At 11:25 AM 1/3/94, Niels Jonker wrote:
>I know that some time ago someone was doing a study of the demographics
>of people on the Internet. Does someone know any results of this, or
Niels,
John Quarterman <jsq@tic.com> recently did such a study.
He profiles it the special issue of the Internet Society News
magazine just out. The entire magazine is a special issue
A Year in the Life of the Internet and contains statistics and
summaries from all over the globe and in different sectors of
the Internet community.
Additional demographic related information will be part of our
annual International Networking Conference program in Prague in June.
If you're a member, your issue will be in the mail, if not,
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were also created.
ciao,
--tony
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