Here is Internet Index #24 and the directory of all editions.
Through mid-April, amount of money raised by Bill Bradley's campaign web site, in dollars: 30,000
Source: Wall Street Journal, 5/21/99
Amount spent by Dan Quayle's campaign to start a web site, in dollars: 26,000
Source: CNN, May 7, 1999
Percent increase in the number of registered domains from 1997 to 1999: 118
Percentage of total domains registered in .com, in 1998: 84
Source: netcommerce magazine, May, 1999
Number of venture capital deals for Internet-related companies, in the first quarter of 1999: 208
Average financing in those deals, in millions of dollars: 10
Average financing for Internet venture deals in 1998, in millions of dollars: 7.9
Source: Internet World, May 10, 1999, citing VentureOne
Amount spent on advertising on the Internet in 1998, in billions
of dollars: 1.9
Estimated amount spent on outdoor advertising in 1998, in billions of dollars: 1.6
Source: Internet World, May 10, 1999, citing the Internet
Advertising Bureau
Estimated number of Internet users, worldwide, at the end of
1998: 147,800,000
Estimated percentage living in the U.S.: 52
Source: The Industry Standard, March 22, 1999, citing The Computer
Industry Almanac
Estimated percentage of Australians using the Internet, in 1998: 19
Estimated percentage of Australians who bought something online,
in 1998: 7
Source: The Industry Standard, March 29, 1999
Number of U.S. households joining the Internet, per hour: 760
Source: The Industry Standard, March 29, 1999, citing Nielsen Media Research
Number of commercial e-mail messages sent each day in the U.S., in billions: 7.3
Source: eMarketer
Number of countries with sites on the IPv6 testbed, the "6bone": 41
Source: The 6bone project
Rank of Finland in number of Internet hosts per capita: 1
Source: John Quarterman, MIDS, writing in SunExpert magazine, March, 1999
Price of one pair of Internet Society socks, in dollars: 4
Source: Internet Society
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