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Number of state attorneys general working with the US Food and Drug Administration to evaluate regulation of fraudulent medical claims on the Internet: 39
Source: Boston Globe, 20 October 1996
Number of major corporate Web sites surveyed for e-mail capabilities by the Wall Street Journal: 24
Percentage of those sites that never responded: 38
Source: Wall Street Journal, 21 October 1996
Number of hours in which Reebok attempts to respond to e-mail requests: 24
Source: Wall Street Journal, 21 October 1996
Cost of an hour of Internet time at Beijing's Internet Cafe, in yuan: 30
Approximate cost of that hour, in dollars: 3.60
Source: Boston Globe, 9 December 1996
Estimated number of Internet users in China at the end of 1996: 100,000
Source: Boston Globe, 9 December 1996, citing Chinese official predictions
Estimated number of adult Americans who use the Web daily: 9 million
Source: Wall Street Journal, 21 October 1996, citing a survey by Find/SVP and Jupiter Communications
Percentage increase in number of frame relay (a wide-area networking technology) customers worldwide, from January, 1994, to January, 1996: 900
Source: Communication Systems Design, October 1996
Percentage of revenue Cisco Systems hopes to be processed online by July, 1997: 30
Source: http://techweb.cmp.com:80/cw/webcommerce/web1209-1.html
Number of Federal court class-action securities complaints available online: 64
Source: http://securities.stanford.edu/
Number of Web sites warned by the FTC that they may be operating illegal pyramid schemes (approximately): 500
Number of lawsuits filed by the FTC alleging online scams: 15
Source: http://moneydaily.com
Number of occurrences of the word "the" in documents indexed by Alta Vista: 432,118,690
Source: http://altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&what=web&fmt=.&q=the
Amount spent by MCI upgrading the Internet backbone, in millions of dollars: 60
Source: Edupage, citing Broadcasting & Cable, 25 Nov 1996, p62
Percentage increase in Internet traffic, per month, estimated by MCI: 30
Source: Edupage, citing Broadcasting & Cable, 25 Nov 1996, p62
Number of "wanted posters" posted on the Wells Fargo Bank Web site: 11
Number marked "arrested": 2
Source: http://www.wellsfargo.com/wanted
Advertising revenue on the Web in the third quarter of 1996, in millions of dollars: 66
Percentage increase from the second quarter: 43
Source: http://www.jup.com./jupiter/release/nov96/adspend/adspend.shtml
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