Here is Internet Index #26 and the directory of all editions.
Number of issues of the New Yorker that include, in the text of an article, a
sample of the output from the Unix traceroute command: 1
Source: New Yorker,
Dec. 6 1999, p. 100 (thanks to Jeff Mogul)
Budget requested by President Clinton for the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration to enforce regulations of prescription drug sales on the
Internet, in millions of dollars: 10
Source: Boston Globe, December, 28,
1999
Budget requested by the U.S. Department of Commerce for tracking
e-commerce, in millions of dollars: 3.5
Source: Wall Street Journal, February
8, 2000
Reported approximate number of stock options received by William Shatner for
advertising for priceline.com: 100,000
Source: USA Today, December 28, 1999,
p.1
Amount budgeted by Rhode Island economic officials to lure Massachusetts
Internet companies to the state, in dollars: 110,000
Amount Microsoft failed to pay to renew registration for the domain name
passport.com, resulting in an outage for many Hotmail users, in dollars:
35
Source: USA Today, December 29, 1999
Percentage of full-time, four-year college students in the U.S. who use the
Internet: 90
Source: The
Industry Standard, February 7, 2000 citing Student Monitor
Rank of "Pokemon" among the most popular search terms at Lycos for 1999:
1
Source: Lycos 50
Number of times President Clinton mentioned the Internet in the 2000 Statue
of the Union address: 6
Source: text
of the address
Number of broadcast-quality responses from members of
Congress posted at FreedomChannel.com: 75
Source: The Industry Standard,
February 7, 2000
Amount of campaign contributions on-line to John McCain in the first two days
after he won the New Hampshire Republican primary, in dollars:
1,000,000
Source: McCain
campaign press release, February 3, 2000
Estimated percentage of online orders from women for the 1999 holiday season:
50
Source: RetailTech, February, 2000, citing Bizrate
Maximum percentage of foreign ownership permitted by China for Chinese
Internet content or service providers: 50
Source: Wall Street Journal,
January 26, 2000
Estimated number of Mexicans with Internet accounts in 1999:
916,000
Source: Wall Street Journal, January 25, 2000
Number of record companies suing mp3.com over a new digital music service:
10
Source: Wall Street Journal, January 24, 2000
Percentage of Internet users who "like spam or have some use for it":
3
Source: Infoworld, January 24, 2000, citing a Gartner Group poll
In 1999, average percentage increase in stock price for pure Internet
companies at IPO: 233
Source: Wall Street Journal, Dec. 27, 1999
Number of
Internet startups with Queen Elizabeth II as an investor: 1
Source: The
Industry Standard, January 31, 2000
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