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Percentage of on-line users who watch TV and PC screens simultaneously: 40
Source: Research by Showtime, reported in Wall Street Journal, 9/11/97, p. R15
Percentage of Webmasters who like the term Webmaster": 44.6
Source: Web Week survey, 9/22/97
Circulation base of Web Week: 125,000
Source: Web Week, 1/5/98
Circulation base of BusinessWeek: 1,025,000
Source: BusinessWeek web site
Percentage increase in number of on-line auction sites listed by Yahoo, April to June, 1997: 140
Source: Inc. Technology 1997 No. 3, p.58
Number of root name servers: 13
Number of miles of undersea telephone cables: 186,000
In 1997, annual percentage growth rate of data traffic on undersea telephone cables: 90
Source: Wall Street Journal, 9/12/97
Number of free months of WebTV service advertised on Snapple bottles: 1
Source: Snapple bottle label
Percentage of software publishers offering technical support on the web: 80
Source: Survey by Software Publishers Association, reported in Computer Shopper, September, 1997
Percentage growth rate, per month, in Internet access revenues (October, 1997): 24.9
Source: Web Week, 11/10/97, p. 34
Percentage of purchasing agents planning to increase use of the Internet for buying industrial supplies: 25
Source: Wall Street Journal, 11/13/97
Percentage of apartment units in New York's Grand Millenium "CyberBuilding" equipped with T1 lines for Internet access: 100
Source: Small Business Computing, October, 1997
Average number of dial-up customers for U.S. Internet service providers: 3,450
Percentage of U.S.Internet service providers expecting revenues to decline from 1996 to 1997: 2.6
Percentage of U.S. Internet service providers expecting to be acquired within three years: 15.4
Source: Web Week survey of ISPs, 12/8/97
Percentage growth in on-line advertising revenues from first quarter to second quarter, 1997: 65
Percentage growth in on-line advertising revenues from second quarter to third quarter, 1997: 6
Source: Web Week, 12/15/97, p. 5
Percentage of Web users who consider Web access "indispensable": 82
Source: GVU 8th WWW Survey
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