[2331] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (April Marine)
Fri Feb 14 14:26:46 1992
From: april@NISC.SRI.COM (April Marine)
To: Dave Hughes <daveh@csn.org>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 14 Feb 92 11:54:40 -0700.
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 92 11:24:03 PST
Dave,
The data quoted:
> NSF's Steve Goldstein gave an excellent summary of the Internet's past,
> present and future. His viewgraphs showed its exponential growth -
> literally exponential, as demonstrated in one of the charts. Some
> datapoints:
>
> Date Connected hosts
> 8/81 213
> 10/85 1,961
> 12/87 28,174
> 1/89 80,000
> 1/91 376,000
> 1/92 727,000
is taken from RFC 1296. The count was derived from the ZONE program
run by SRI, which checks out the DNS to see what it can count.
RFC 1296 explains more fully about the program and has some counts
and charts.
April Marine
SRI International
Network Information Systems Center
