The Internet Index

Number 5
Inspired by "Harper's Index"*
Compiled by Win Treese (treese@OpenMarket.com)
31 December 1994

Here is the Internet Index annotated with sources and the directory of all editions.

Growth of Gopher traffic in 1993: 1076%
Growth of Gopher traffic in 1994: 197%

Growth of WWW traffic in 1993: 443,931%
Growth of WWW traffic in 1994: 1713%

Growth in NSFNET traffic in 1994: 110%

Advertised network numbers in November, 1993: 19,664
Advertised network numbers in November, 1994: 42,883

Number of Internet access providers with service in Quito, Ecuador: 1

Number of countries reachable by electronic mail in 1993: 137 (approx.)
Number of countries reachable by electronic mail in 1994: 159 (approx.)

Number of countries on the Internet in 1994: 81
Number of countries on the Internet in 1993: 60

Number of sites participating in "First Night in Cyberspace": 10

Number of peer-reviewed scholarly journals published electronically on the Internet: over 70

Number of attendees at Internet World, January, 1992: 272
Number of attendees at Internet World, December, 1994: over 10,000

Number of "cybercafes" in the United Kingdom: 1

Number of subscribers to the ClariNet electronic newspaper: 80,000

Number of FBI cases officially publicized on the Internet: 1

Percentage increase in weight of the 2nd edition of the Canadian Internet Handbook: 280

Number of meetings of the Internet Engineering Task Force, through 1994: 31

Number of US Youth Soccer teams with web pages: 2

On average, number of days between issuing of new Internet RFCs in 1994: 2

Number of phone calls to InterNIC Registration Services during November, 1994: 1,964

Number of Internet messages causing Microsoft to issue a press release denying them: 1


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