[9228] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
"Internet statistics" (factoids)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roger Bohn)
Thu Dec 23 17:02:56 1993
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1993 14:02:12 -0800
To: com-priv@psi.com
From: Rbohn@ucsd.edu (Roger Bohn)
Some of the following look a bit odd to me, but this is an interesting
compilation nonetheless. (For example, specifying a growth rate as
341,634% is not as useful as saying 3000x, and it's almost meaningless
without knowing the exact measurement interval and base level.)
My apologies if you've seen this a zillion other places; it's the first
time I've encountered it.
>Date: Thu, 23 Dec 93 11:05:33 PST
>From: Paul N Edwards <pedwards@euphrates.Stanford.EDU>
>To: htech-l%sivm.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu, sci-tech-studies@ucsd.edu
>Subject: Internet statistics
>
>
>I received this notice, naturally, over the Internet.
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>- Paul Edwards
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> The Internet Index
> [format stolen from "Harper's Index"]
> Compiled by Win Treese (treese@crl.dec.com), 7/8/93
> Revised: 12/16/93
>
> Annual rate of growth for Gopher traffic: 997%
>
> Annual rate of growth for World-Wide Web traffic: 341,634%
>
>Average time between new networks connecting to the Internet: 10 minutes
>
>Number of newspaper and magazine articles about the Internet during the
> first nine months of 1993: over 2300
>
> Number of on-line coffeehouses in San Francisco: 18
> Cost for four minutes of Internet time at those coffeehouses: $0.25
>
>Date of first known Internet mail message sent by a head of state: 2 March 1993
> (Sent by Bill Clinton, President of the United States)
>
>Date on which first Stephen King short story published via the Internet before
> print publication: 19 Sept 1993
>
> Number of mail messages carried by IBM's Internet gateways
> in January, 1993: about 340,000
>
> Number of mail messages carried by Digital's Internet gateways
> in June, 1993: over 700,000
>
> Advertised network numbers in July, 1993: 13,293
> Advertised network numbers in July, 1992: 5,739
>
> Date after which more than half the registered networks were
> commercial: August, 1991
>
> Number of Internet hosts in Norway, per 1000 population: 5
> Number of Internet hosts in United States, per 1000 population: 4
> Number of Internet hosts in July, 1993: 1,776,000
>
>Round-trip time from Digital CRL to mcmvax.mcmurdo.gov in McMurdo, Antartica:
> 640 milliseconds
> Number of hops: 18
>
>Number of USENET articles posted on a typical day in February, 1993: 35,000
> Number of megabytes posted: 44
> Number of users posting: 80,000
> Number of sites represented: 25,000
>
> Number of Silicon Valley real estate agencies advertising with
> Internet mail addresses: 1
>
> Terabytes carried by the NSFnet backbone in February, 1993: 5
>
> Number of countries reachable by electronic mail: 137 (approx.)
> Number of countries not reachable by electronic mail: 99 (approx.)
> Number of countries on the Internet: 60
>
> Amount of time it takes for Supreme Court decisions to become
> available on the Internet: less than one day.
>
> Date of first National Public Radio program broadcast simultaneously
> on the Internet: 21 May 1993
>
>Percent of Boardwatch Top 100 BBS systems with Internet Connectivity: 21
>
> Number of people on the Internet who know you're a dog: 0
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