(Fwd) Internet Index #10 (fwd)

[RSPEER@lpl.avcnet.org (Richard A. Speer)]

Just thought you all might like to see this interesting set of facts.

Rick Speer

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 1995 23:40:10 -0400
From: Win Treese <treese@OpenMarket.com>
To: internet-index@OpenMarket.com
Subject: Internet Index #10

                               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.

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