Here is Internet Index #26 annotated with sources 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
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
Budget requested by the U.S. Department
of Commerce for tracking e-commerce, in millions of dollars: 3.5
Reported approximate number of stock options received by William Shatner for
advertising for priceline.com: 100,000
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
Percentage of full-time, four-year college students in the U.S. who use the
Internet: 90
Rank of "Pokemon" among the most popular search terms at Lycos for 1999:
1
Number of times President Clinton mentioned the Internet in the 2000 Statue
of the Union address: 6
Number of broadcast-quality responses from members of
Congress posted at FreedomChannel.com: 75
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
Estimated percentage of online orders from women for the 1999 holiday season:
50
Maximum percentage of foreign ownership permitted by China for Chinese
Internet content or service providers: 50
Estimated number of Mexicans with Internet accounts in 1999: 916,000
Number of record companies suing mp3.com over a new digital music service:
10
Percentage of Internet users who "like spam or have some use for it": 3
In 1999, average percentage increase in stock price for pure Internet
companies at IPO: 233
Number of Internet startups with Queen Elizabeth II as
an investor: 1
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