Here is Internet Index #6 annotated with sources and the directory of all editions.
Estimated number of people who can use interactive services on the Internet:
13.5 million
Percentage of movie ads with Internet addresses in the Boston Globe on
12 February 1995: 8
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
Average time, in minutes during business hours, between registrations
of new domains: 2
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).
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
Number of Norwegian television shows with a WWW home page: 1
Number of financial service firms with registered domains: 398
Percentage increase in the number of financial service firms with
registered domains during 1994: 197
Estimated number of USENET sites, worldwide: 260,000
Estimated number of readers of the USENET group rec.humor.funny: 480,000
Percentage of WWW users who are single: 53
Percentage of Australian homes with a personal computer: 25
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
Annual fee, in pounds, of dial-up access to the Internet with British Telecomm:
1750
Percentage of Estonian elementary and secondary schools connected to
the Internet: 16
Estimated number of U.S. newspapers offering interactive access: 3,200
Estimated number of jobs that would be created under proposed
deregulation of the telecommunications industry: 1.4 million
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