The Internet Index

Number 2
Inspired by "Harper's Index"*
Compiled by Win Treese (treese@OpenMarket.com)
2 August 1994

Here is the Internet Index.

Number of books in the Unofficial Internet Book List: 106
Average number of pages in the listed books: 335
Source: "The Unofficial Internet Book List", compiled by Kevin Savetz <savetz@rahul.net> file://rtfm.mit.edu//pub/usenet/news.answers/internet-services/book-list

Number of USENET "Frequently Asked Questions" postings: 1964
Source: Ohio State FAQ archive http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/FAQ-List.html See also news.answers and file://rtfm.mit.edu//pub/usenet/news.answers

Number of copies of Mosaic downloaded from NCSA, per day: 1600
Source: Press materials quoting Joseph Hardin, director of the NCSA Software Development Group.

Highest rank achieved by "The Canadian Internet Handbook" on Canada's nonfiction paperback best-seller list: 1
Number of weeks it held that rank: 6
Source: Mail from author Rick Broadhead <handbook@vm1.yorku.ca> on net-happenings mailing list. See also http://www.csi.nb.ca/handbook/handbook.html

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
Source: World Wide Web survey

Percentage of registered commercial domains with addresses in California: 27
Source: The Internet Group

Number of companies registered on the Internet in April, 1994: 14,726
Percentage located in U.S. area code 415 (San Francisco): 10
Source: The Internet Group

Company with the most registered networks: Exxon
Number of networks registered by Exxon: 261
Source: The Internet Group

Number of known Gopher servers in April, 1994: 6958
Source: NSFNET statistics

Number of bytes on the NSFNET backbone in June, 1994: 15 trillion
Percentage increase from June, 1993: 114
Source: NSFNET statistics

Number of bytes of World Wide Web traffic in June, 1994: 946 billion
Percentage increase from June, 1993: 2500
Source: NSFNET statistics

Date Internet used to find medical information on "Northern Exposure": May 2, 1994

Number of America Online subscribers in June, 1994: 900,000

Number of ARPANet hosts in December, 1969: 4
Number of Internet hosts in June, 1994: approximately 3.2 million
Source: Alex McKenzie, BBN (speaking at Summer '94 USENIX), and Peter Salus (private communication).

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
Source: Eastern Management Group estimate, reported in Fortune 7/11/94, p62

Number of cities with real-time highway traffic photos available on the Internet: 1
Source: San Diego

Number of calls in one week to O.J. Simpson's toll-free hot line: 250,000
Source: Associated Press article

Number of accesses in one week to one of NASA's Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 servers: 340,000
Source: Mail from Syed Towheed <towheed@NSSDCA.GSFC.NASA.GOV>

First public library to offer free access to the Internet: Seattle Public Library
Source: Seattle Times

Number of daily newspapers known to have printed excerpts from the first Internet Index: 3

Number of annular solar eclipses broadcast on the MBONE: 1


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