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Number of times President Clinton mentioned the Internet in the 1997 State of the Union address: 6
Number of times he mentioned it in the 1996 address: 0
Source: 1996 State of the Union address
Number of State of the Union addresses carried live on the Internet: 1
Source: 1997 State of the Union address
Percent change in Hambrecht & Quist's Internet stock index for 1996: -16
Source: Web Week, 6 January 1997
Percentage of domain registrations required to pay for the service that have done so: 51.1
Source: Boston Globe, 26 January 1997
Approximate number of new domain name registrations, per month: 85,000
Source: Boston Globe, 26 January 1997
Rank of Ford among Web advertisers, in estimated dollars spent, August, 1996: 18
Rank of Microsoft: 1
Source: Jupiter Communications report, October, 1996
Number of people who worked on the NFL's Super Bowl Web site: 35
Source: Boston Globe, 17 January 1997
Number of entries in Boardwatch magazine's Directory of Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 3,068
Average number of customers at an ISP: 1,850
Source: Boston Globe, 1 January 1997
Number of "Internet search engines" ordered to remove references to a domain name as a result of a trademark lawsuit: 25
Source: CardService International, Inc., vs. Webster R. McGee, Case No. 2:96cv986, US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
Number of Boston Public Library branches: 26
Percentage connected to the Internet: 100
Number of new top-level domain names to be added for the Internet: 7
Source: Wall Street Jounral, 6 February 1997
Approximate number of entries in the 1996 Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters and Academic Discussion Lists: 1,700
Source: Association of Research Libraries Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters
Number of colleges and universities which are charter members of the Internet II project: 98
Source: Edupage, 6 February 1997, citing the Chronicle of Higher Education, 7 February 1997
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