[9609] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Gore on CompuServe and C-SPAN (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Fri Jan 14 02:41:07 1994
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 09:39:47 +0200
From: Petri Helenius <pete@eunet.fi>
To: emv@garnet.msen.com
Cc: com-priv@uu.psi.com
In-Reply-To: <m0pKh8L-000EpWC@garnet.msen.com> (emv@garnet.msen.com)
> vic@access.digex.net writes:
> : The conference will be held in CompuServe's Convention Center, which holds
> : 300 people. The historic nature of this meeting, however, has prompted CIS
> : to add two computers, making space available for an additional 600 people,
> : As I write, all 900 slots are filled, making this this the most heavily
> : attended live computer-mediated conference ever held.
> The IRC network has had more than 900 users on line at once, in particular
> traffic was quite heavy during the Gulf War and during the elections.
> I know I've seen upwards of 1100 people logged in (though I can't say just
> how many people were on any given channel).
> I would dispute CompuServe's claim of "most heavily attended ever".
Old news ;-)
IRC made the record during gulf war of going over one thousand and keeping
there until the war ceased. Then it dropped back to "normal" 300-600
simultaneous users. But nowadays it's regular daily routine to have
thousands of users on IRC at once:
*** There are 1863 users and 795 invisible on 135 servers
At present there is 2658 users online. I've seen figures go up to five
thousand at occasions.
Pete
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