The Internet Index

			 The Internet Index
		   [Inspired by "Harper's Index"*]
	 Compiled by Win Treese (treese@crl.dec.com), 7/8/93
			   Revised: 1/7/94
				   
Annual rate of growth for Gopher traffic: 997%
# Tony Rutkowski, "The Internet Is Its Own Revolution", Internet Society
# News, 2(3):2, Autumn, 1993.

Annual rate of growth for WWW traffic: 341,634%
#Ibid.

Average time between new networks connecting to the Internet: 10 minutes
#Ibid.

Number of newspaper and magazine articles about the Internet during the
	first nine months of 1993: over 2300
# Howard L. Funk, "Internet Media Exposure",  Internet Society
# News, 2(3):28, Autumn, 1993.

Number of online coffeehouses in San Francisco: 18
# "San Francisco Cafes on the Internet", Internet Society
# News, 2(3):14, Autumn, 1993, citing Fortune Magazine (with no date).

Cost for four minutes of Internet time at those coffeehouses: $0.25
#Ibid.

Date of first Internet mail message sent by a US President: 2 March 1993
	(Sent by Bill Clinton, President of the United States)
# "Heads of State on the Internet",  Internet Society News, 2(3):13,
# Autumn, 1993.

Date on which first Stephen King short story published via the Internet before
	print publication: 19 Sept 1993
#Available through Editorial, Inc./Online BookStore (OBS) (obs@tic.com)
#or file://tic.com/obs

Number of mail messages carried by IBM's Internet gateways
	in January, 1993: about 340,000
#A. M. Rutkowski, "Internet Metrics", Internet Society News, 2(1):33-38.

Advertised network numbers in October, 1993: 16,533
Advertised network numbers in October, 1992:  7,505
#Data from Merit. More information available at
#file://nic.merit.edu

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 October, 1993: 2,056,000
#A. M. Rutkowski, "Internet Metrics", Internet Society News, 2(1):33-38.

Round-trip time from MIT to mcmvax.mcmurdo.gov in McMurdo, Antarctica:
	640 milliseconds
Number of hops: 18
#Win Treese, suggested by a note in the Internet Society News, 2(1):13,
#Spring, 1993.

Number of USENET articles posted in two weeks during December, 1993: 605,000
Number of megabytes posted: 1450
Number of users posting: 130,000
Number of sites represented: 42,000
#Dan Lawrence (from UUNET data), personal communication.

Number of Silicon Valley real estate agencies advertising with
Internet mail addresses: 1
#Brian Reid, personal communication.
#Also noted in the Internet Society News, 2(1):13, citing an ad
#in the Palo Alto Weekly.

Terabytes carried by the NSFNET backbone in February, 1993: 5
#From NSFNET statistics on file://nic.merit.edu/statistics

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
#As of 8/1/93. From "International Connectivity" by Larry Landweber.
# Internet Society News, 2(3):35, Autumn, 1993.  This information is
# maintained at file://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/connectivity_table.

Amount of time it takes for Supreme Court decisions to become
	available on the Internet: less than one day.
#The decisions are archived on file://ftp.cwru.edu/hermes
# and available on the World Wide Web at
# http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/supct.table.html

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
# Cartoon in the "New Yorker", July 5, 1993.

*"Harper's Index" is a registered trademark of Harper's Magazine Foundation.
Copyright 1993,1994 by Win Treese.
Send updates or interesting statistics to treese@crl.dec.com.