Hope this comes through; it might be of interest. Around 1994,
I subscribed to a number of services following net growth; the
results were fascinating, and still are.
- Alan
From sam...@c2.org Fri Aug 5 18:32:06 1994
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 1994 11:41:34 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: ISOC News Release on Host Count (fwd)
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Internet Society Press Release
4 August 1994
LATEST INTERNET MEASUREMENTS REVEAL DRAMATIC GROWTH IN 1994
--Reston VA, USA. One of the most basic continuing measurements of
the size of the Internet was released yesterday. For more than ten
years, the Internet has been measured almost every quarter by the
number of host computers reachable. This is a key value because one of the
most fundamental capabilities of the Internet is to directly link virtually any
kind of computer across almost any kind of telecommunication medium. The
measurement is described in the Internet document RFC 1296.
The latest measurement - sometimes referred to as "the Internet Walk" -
shows 3.2 million reachable machines. This is an increase of 81 percent
for the past year, and represents an even steeper than normal increase
over the past six months. Indeed, 1 million new hosts were added during
the first six months of 1994. Much of the increased growth is attributable
to growth outside the world in more than 80 countries. These values are
shown in the attached annex.
The so-called Internet Domain Survey is the product of Mark Lottor of
Network Wizards. The Domain Survey attempts to discover every host on the
Internet by doing a complete search of the Domain Name System. The latest
results were gathered during late-July 1994 are listed below.
For more detailed data see the zone directory on ftp.nw.com, or the Net Wizards
World Wide Web home page at http://www.nw.com
July 94 Apr 94 Jan 94 Oct 93 Jul 93 Change (year)
Hosts: 3,212,000 N/A 2,217,000 2,056,000 1,776,000 81%
Domains: 46,000 30,000 28,000 26,000 77%
The Internet Society is the international organization for the Internet,
its technologies and applications. For more information on this subject
or other information concerning the Internet, the Society's activities and
publications, contact the Society's International Secretariat or visit its WWW
home page at:
http://info.isoc.org
12020 Sunrise Valley Dr. suite 270
Reston VA 22091
USA
tel: +1 703 648 9888
800 468 9507 (USA only)
fax: +1 703 648 9887
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ANNEX
Country Host Statistics - July 1994
Country Hosts %ofTotal ChangeFromJan94
US-educational (higher) 856,234 27% 41%
US-commercial 774,735 24% 36%
US-government 169,248 5% 31%
US-defense 130,176 4% 26%
US-non-profit organization 66,459 2% 31%
US-network operator 30,993 1% 146%
US-local 16,556 1% 153%
US total 2,044,401 63% 38%
United Kingdom 155,706 5% 37%
Germany 149,193 5% 51%
Canada 127,516 4% 48%
Australia 127,514 4% 42%
Japan 72,409 2% 69%
France 71,899 2% 117%
Netherlands 59,729 2% 43%
Sweden 53,294 2% 40%
Finland 49,598 2% **
Switzerland 47,401 1% 24%
Norway 38,759 1% 22%
Italy 23,616 1% 38%
Spain 21,147 1% 79%
Austria 20,130 1% 30%
South Africa 15,595 <1% 42%
New Zealand 14,830 <1% 157%
Korea 12,109 <1% 35%
Denmark 12,107 <1% 175%
Belgium 12,107 <1% 147%
Taiwan 10,314 <1% 29%
Hong Kong 9,141 <1% 60%
Italy 8,464 <1% 28%
Poland 7,392 <1% 55%
Brazil 5,896 <1% 63%
Czech Rep. 5,639 <1% 169%
Hungary 5,390 <1% 122%
Mexico 5,164 <1% 45%
Portugal 4,518 <1% 25%
Singapore 4,014 <1% 45%
Chile 3,703 <1% 170%
Ireland 3,308 <1% 103%
Iceland 3,268 <1% 73%
Russian Fed. (SU) 3,145 <1% 142%
Greece 2,958 <1% 249%
Czech&Slovak (CS) 1,869 <1% -36%
Malaysia 1,322 <1% 204%
Turkey 1,204 <1% 140%
Thailand 1,197 <1% 334%
Slovakia 868 <1% 70%
Croatia 838 <1% 79%
Estonia 659 <1% 93%
Slovenia 574 <1% -9%
Costa Rica 544 <1% 153%
Romania 453 <1% 466%
Luxembourg 420 <1% 37%
Venezuela 399 <1% 6%
Ukraine 339 <1% 994%
China 325 <1% *
Russian Fed. (RU) 322 <1% *
India 316 <1% 129%
International organizations 315 <1% 34%
Kuwait 297 <1% 115%
Ecuador 256 <1% 73%
Argentina 248 <1% 8167%
Latvia 180 <1% 150%
Colombia 144 <1% *
Uruguay 101 <1% *
Bulgaria 79 <1% 276%
Peru 75 <1% *
Philippines 65 <1% *
Indonesia 54 <1% *
Lithuania 53 <1% *
Egypt 52 <1% 11%
Tunesia 46 <1% 318%
Peru 42 <1% *
Cyprus 38 <1% 660%
Liechtenstein 27 <1% 59%
Panama 24 <1% *
Nicaragua 23 <1% *
Macau 12 <1% *
Algeria 7 <1% *
Fiji 5 <1% 0%
Iran 4 <1% 0%
Antartica 4 <1% *
Moldova 2 <1% *
Saudi Arabia 1 <1% *
1,180,776 37%
* Not connected in Jan 1994
** Not counted in Jan 1994
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From sack...@plains.nodak.edu Fri Aug 5 18:33:29 1994
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 1994 22:09:16 -0500 (CDT)
From: Gleason Sackman <sack...@plains.nodak.edu>
To: net-happenings <net-happeni...@is.internic.net>
Subject: MISC> The Internet Index #2 (fwd)
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Date: Wed, 03 Aug 1994 13:55:48 -0400
From: Win Treese <tre...@openmarket.com>
To: internet-in...@openmarket.com
Subject: The Internet Index
The Internet Index
Number 2
Inspired by "Harper's Index"*
Compiled by Win Treese <tre...@openmarket.com>
2 August 1994
http://www.openmarket.com/info/internet-index/current.html
Number of books in the Unofficial Internet Book List: 106
Average number of pages in the listed books: 335
Number of USENET "Frequently Asked Questions" postings: 1964
Number of copies of Mosaic downloaded from NCSA, per day: 1600
Highest rank achieved by "The Canadian Internet Handbook" on Canada's
non-fiction paperback bestseller list: 1
Number of weeks it held that rank: 6
Number of electronic mail messages received by the White House since
last summer: 200,000
Number of prosecutions for sending threats to President Clinton by
electronic mail: 1
Percentage of Web survey respondents over 40 years of age: 10
Percentage of registered commercial domains with addresses in
California: 27
Number of companies registered on the Internet in April, 1994: 14,726
Percentage located in U.S. area code 415 (San Francisco): 10
Company with the most registered networks: Exxon
Number of networks registered by Exxon: 261
Number of known Gopher servers in April, 1994: 6958
Number of bytes on the NSFnet backbone in June, 1994: 15 trillion
Percentage increase from June, 1993: 114
Number of bytes of World-Wide Web traffic in June, 1994: 946 billion
Percentage increase from June, 1993: 2500
Date Internet used to find medical information on "Northern Exposure":
May 2, 1994
Number of America On-Line subscribers in June, 1994: 900,000
Number of ARPAnet hosts in June, 1969: 3
Number of Internet hosts in June, 1994: approximately 2.3 million
Number of packets on the ARPAnet in June, 1972: approximately 800,000
Number of packets on the NSFnet backbone in June, 1994: 75 billion
Number of voice mail messages left in 1993: 12 billion
Number of cities with real-time highway traffic photos available on
the Internet: 1
Number of calls in one week to O.J. Simpson's toll-free hotline: 250,000
Number of accesses in one week to one of NASA's Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9
servers: 340,000
First public library to offer free access to the Internet: Seattle
Public Library
Number of annular solar eclipses broadcast on the MBone: 1
"Harper's Index" is a registered trademark of Harper's Magazine Foundation.
Copyright 1994 by Win Treese. Send updates or interesting statistics to
tre...@openmarket.com. A copy of the Index annotated with sources can
be found at http://www.openmarket.com/info/internet-index/current.html.
To subscribe to future issues of the Internet Index, send a message
saying "subscribe internet-index" in the body to
internet-index-requ...@openmarket.com
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