The Internet Index

Number 26
Inspired by "Harper's Index"*
Compiled by Win Treese (mailto:treese@openmarket.com)
Co-author of Designing Systems for Internet Commerce
17 February 2000

Here is Internet Index #26 annotated with sources and the directory of all editions.

Number of issues of the New Yorker that include, in the text of an article, a sample of the output from the Unix traceroute command: 1

Budget requested by President Clinton for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to enforce regulations of prescription drug sales on the Internet, in millions of dollars: 10
Budget requested by the U.S. Department of Commerce for tracking e-commerce, in millions of dollars: 3.5

Reported approximate number of stock options received by William Shatner for advertising for priceline.com: 100,000

Amount budgeted by Rhode Island economic officials to lure Massachusetts Internet companies to the state, in dollars: 110,000

Amount Microsoft failed to pay to renew registration for the domain name passport.com, resulting in an outage for many Hotmail users, in dollars: 35

Percentage of full-time, four-year college students in the U.S. who use the Internet: 90

Rank of "Pokemon" among the most popular search terms at Lycos for 1999: 1

Number of times President Clinton mentioned the Internet in the 2000 Statue of the Union address: 6
Number of broadcast-quality responses from members of Congress posted at FreedomChannel.com: 75

Amount of campaign contributions on-line to John McCain in the first two days after he won the New Hampshire Republican primary, in dollars: 1,000,000

Estimated percentage of online orders from women for the 1999 holiday season: 50

Maximum percentage of foreign ownership permitted by China for Chinese Internet content or service providers: 50

Estimated number of Mexicans with Internet accounts in 1999: 916,000

Number of record companies suing mp3.com over a new digital music service: 10

Percentage of Internet users who "like spam or have some use for it": 3

In 1999, average percentage increase in stock price for pure Internet companies at IPO: 233
Number of Internet startups with Queen Elizabeth II as an investor: 1


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