The Internet Index

Number 10
Inspired by "Harper's Index"*
Compiled by Win Treese (treese@OpenMarket.com)
14 October 1995

Here is Internet Index #10 (with sources) and the directory of all editions.

Number of members of the U.S. House of Representatives participating in the Constituent Electronic Mail System: 119

Rank of Crayola in Point Communication's Survey of Most Visited Sites: 6

Number of subscribers to the A.Word.A.Day mailing list: 21,000

Estimated number of subscribers to online services: 12 million
Dataquest estimate of revenues for online services in 1997: $3.3 billion

Number of users of Minitel: 14.4 million
Number of companies offering services on Minitel: over 10,000

Number of subscribers to Internet World magazine: 208,000
Number of subscribers to Cosmopolitan: 2.3 million

Average age of users of the Yahoo directory service: 35

Approximate number of domain name requests, per minute, handled by the InterNIC: 1.2

Estimated number of Internet hosts at the end of the century: 101 million

Percentage of advertisements containing URLS, in the first 18 pages of the September, 1995, issue of Scientific American: 50
Percentage of advertisements containing toll-free telephone numbers, in the first 18 pages of the September, 1995, issue of Scientific American: 90

Number of SEC documents downloaded from the SEC's Edgar database on the Internet: 3.1 million

Number of digits of pi available on the Internet: 3.2 billion
Time taken to compute those digits: 37 hours

Number of National Public Radio stations on the Internet: 82


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