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Estimated number of people who can use interactive services on the Internet:
13.5 million
Source: John Quarterman,
Matrix Information and Directory Services, Inc.
Percentage of movie ads with Internet addresses in the Boston Globe on
12 February 1995: 8
Source: Boston Globe, 2/12/95. The movies are
Higher Learning and
Billy Madison
Number, per day, of Prodigy users registering to use Prodigy's World Wide
Web access: 15,000
Price, per hour, of World Wide Web access on Prodigy after the first
five hours: $2.95
Source:
Newsbytes news article via ClariNet
Average time, in minutes during business hours, between registrations
of new domains: 2
Source: InterNIC Registration Services
Cost of access, per minute, to Internet Services at Cybersmith: 17.5 cents
Cost, per cup, of cappuccino to enjoy while surfing: $2.00
(Cybersmith is a new store in Cambridge, Massachusetts).
Source: Boston Globe, 2/7/95
Percentage increase in number of Internet hosts from October, 1994,
to January, 1995: 26
Percentage increase in number of registered domains from October, 1994,
to January, 1995: 28
Source:
Internet Domain Survey
Number of Norwegian television shows with a WWW home page: 1
Source: Rondo
Number of financial service firms with registered domains: 398
Percentage increase in the number of financial service firms with
registered domains during 1994: 197
Source: Internet Info
Estimated number of USENET sites, worldwide: 260,000
Estimated number of readers of the USENET group rec.humor.funny: 480,000
Source: Brian Reid's USENET Readership Report, posted monthly to
news.lists.
Percentage of WWW users who are single: 53
Source: Consumer Survey of WWW Users
Percentage of Australian homes with a personal computer: 25
Source: Survey by Australian Bureau of Statistics, as reported by
Newsbytes via ClariNet
Number of regional networks acquired by Bolt, Beranek, and Newman: 3
Rank of TOPTEN, a mailing list about David Letterman's Top Ten list,
among LISTSERV mailing lists: 1
Number of subscribers: over 27,000
Source: John Buckman, via forwarded mail
Rank of TOPTEN, a mailing list about David Letterman's Top Ten list,
among LISTSERV mailing lists: 1
Number of subscribers: over 27,000
Annual fee, in pounds, of dial-up access to the Internet with British Telecomm:
1750
Source:
British Telecomm
Percentage of Estonian elementary and secondary schools connected to
the Internet: 16
Source: Estonian Schoolserver
Estimated number of U.S. newspapers offering interactive access: 3,200
Source: The Kelsey Group, as reported by
Newsbytes via ClariNet.
Estimated number of jobs that would be created under proposed deregulation of the telecommunications industry: 1.4 million
Source: press reports of Clinton administration estimates
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