The Internet Index Number 10 Inspired by "Harper's Index"* Compiled by Win Treese (treese@OpenMarket.com) 14 October 1995 Number of members of the U.S. House of Representatives participating in the Constituent Electronic Mail System: 119 Rank of Crayola in Point Communication's Survey of Most Visited Sites: 6 Number of subscribers to the A.Word.A.Day mailing list: 21,000 Estimated number of subscribers to online services: 12 million Dataquest estimate of revenues for online services in 1997: $3.3 billion Number of users of Minitel: 14.4 million Number of companies offering services on Minitel: over 10,000 Number of subscribers to Internet World magazine: 208,000 Number of subscribers to Cosmopolitan: 2.3 million Average age of users of the Yahoo directory service: 35 Approximate number of domain name requests, per minute, handled by the InterNIC: 1.2 Estimated number of Internet hosts at the end of the century: 101 million Percentage of advertisements containing URLS, in the first 18 pages of the September, 1995, issue of Scientific American: 50 Percentage of advertisements containing toll-free telephone numbers, in the first 18 pages of the September, 1995, issue of Scientific American: 90 Number of SEC documents downloaded from the SEC's Edgar database on the Internet: 3.1 million Number of digits of pi available on the Internet: 3.2 billion Time taken to compute those digits: 37 hours Number of National Public Radio stations on the Internet: 82 "Harper's Index" is a registered trademark of Harper's Magazine Foundation. Copyright 1995 by Win Treese. Send updates or interesting statistics to treese@OpenMarket.com. Past issues and citations to sources can be found at http://www.openmarket.com/info/internet-index/. To subscribe to future issues of the Internet Index, send a message saying "subscribe internet-index" in the body to internet-index-request@OpenMarket.com.