Here is the Internet Index annotated with sources and the directory of all editions.
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
nonfiction paperback best-seller 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 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
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 hot line: 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 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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