The Internet Index

Number 13
Inspired by "Harper's Index"*
Compiled by Win Treese ( treese@OpenMarket.com)
9 June 1996

Here is Internet Index #13 and the directory of all editions.

Number of security incidents reported to the Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center in 1995: 2412
Number of sites affected by those incidents: 12,000
Source: CERT annual report
Number reported in 1988: 6
Source: CERT/CC

Number of Christine Lavin songs containing a URL: 1

Estimated amount spent on advertising on the Internet in 1995: $33,000,000
Estimated total amount spent on advertising in the U.S.: $159,000,000,000
Source: Forrester Research, cited in the Boston Globe, 5/18/96

Percentage of comics in the Boston Globe listing e-mail addresses: 38
Percentage of comics in the Boston Globe listing URLs: 21
Source: Boston Globe, 6/8/96

Number of TV networks planning to provide live video broadcast of the 1996 political conventions: 1
Source: USA Today, 6/3/96. The network is CBS

Number of Danish e-mail addresses listed in Tele Danmark's directory: 70,000
Source: Tele Danmark

According to IBM, number of verbs connected companies live by: 5
Source: IBM

Amount Bell Atlantic pays to Internet service providers for referring residential customers: $15
Source: Bell Atlantic (see also a story in Inter@ctive Week Online

Number of plaintiffs in lawsuit contesting the Communications Decency Act: 46
Source: ACLU and Citizens Internet Empowerment Consortium

Number of Internet hosts, as of January, 1996: 9.5 million
Source: Network Wizards Internet Domain Survey

Number of Web servers counted in the June Netcraft Web Server Survey: 252,685
Source: Netcraft Web Server Survey

Number of new country Internet domains added in February, 1996: 3
Source: March '96 Internet Monthly Report

Percentage increase in number of Portuguese Internet hosts, May, 1996: 17
Source: RIPE NCC host count


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