The Internet Index Number 8 Inspired by "Harper's Index"* Compiled by Win Treese (treese@OpenMarket.com) 29 June 1995 Venture capital invested in Internet companies, first quarter 1995: $47 million Venture capital invested in Internet companies, all of 1994: $42 million Number of PBS stations with WWW home pages: 25 Percentage increase, last week, in number of listings on Open Market's Commercial Sites Index: 7 Number of tennis Grand Slam tournaments on the World-Wide Web: 1 Telephone number for information about the National Information Infrastructure: 1-800-NII-8818 Authorized funding, in FY95, for the Agricultural Telecommunications Funding Program (US govt): $1.2 million Number of subscribers on Apple Computer's eWorld online service: 80,000 Number of new Internet domains registered in British Columbia, May, 1995: 343 Number of new Internet domains registered in Manhattan, May, 1995: 340 Number of Internet access providers in Egypt: 4 Estimated average speed of traffic on I-5 in San Diego at 12:01 AM today: 68 Share price for Spyglass, Inc., initial public offering: $17 Percentage of Internet users using local access providers: 28 Number of subscribers to the Internet Index mailing list: 7290 "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.