From postmaster Thu Dec 23 03:26:54 1993 Received: from halcyon.com (coho.halcyon.com [198.137.231.21]) by eff.org (8.6.4/8.6.4) with SMTP id DAA27517 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1993 03:26:49 -0500 From: robg@halcyon.com Received: from Robg.halcyon.com (bellevue-ip24.halcyon.com) by halcyon.com with SMTP id AA15897 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for eff-staff@eff.org); Thu, 23 Dec 1993 00:26:58 -0800 Message-Id: Date: Thu, 23 Dec 93 00:12:29 PST Reply-To: robg@halcyon.com To: 73021.2172@compuserve.com (David Halperin) To: 76312.303@compuserve.com (Mark O'Brien) To: eff-board@eff.org To: eff-staff@eff.org To: markoff@nyt.com To: mike@starwave.com To: pauld@halcyon.com Subject: Fun Internet Statistics Status: RO From: SMAUG::TCPJON::"internet-mgmt-request" 17-DEC-1993 09:52:38.57 Message-Id: <9312170337.AA01496@aqaba.crl.dec.com> Subject: Revised Internet Index Date: Thu, 16 Dec 93 22:37:35 -0500 From: treese@crl.dec.com Some additions and updated numbers. Please send me any relevant information. - Win 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