Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 10:26:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Steve Outing <outings@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: User of Web.
To: Gordon Joly <G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: online-world@media.mit.edu
On Mon, 1 Aug 1994, Gordon Joly wrote:
> I am looking for data on the Internet users. Are there any demographic
> results out there?
>
Point your gopher to tic.com
They did a demographic study earlier this year.
Steve Outing
outings@netcom.com
owner-online-newspapers@marketplace.com
owner-online-news@marketplace.com
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 17:34:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Makulowich <verbwork@access.digex.net>
Subject: Re: User of Web.
To: Mark Ackerman <ackerman@ics.uci.edu>
Cc: Steve Outing <outings@netcom.com>, online-world@media.mit.edu
URL gopher://gopher.tic.com:70/1
altho it was down when i just tried it. regards.
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On Mon, 1 Aug 1994, Mark Ackerman wrote:
> > Point your gopher to tic.com
> > They did a demographic study earlier this year.
>
> Can you give us more info? tic.com refuses gopher (at least on the default
> port), and they don't have a Web server.
>
> Mark
>
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 14:36:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Steve Outing <outings@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: User of Web.
To: Mark Ackerman <ackerman@ics.uci.edu>
Cc: online-world@media.mit.edu
On Mon, 1 Aug 1994, Mark Ackerman wrote:
> > Point your gopher to tic.com
> > They did a demographic study earlier this year.
>
> Can you give us more info? tic.com refuses gopher (at least on the default
> port), and they don't have a Web server.
>
Sorry about that. What I saved from a few months ago now seems to be
outdated.
A Jughead search turned up akasha.tic.com, but I just get connection
refused.
Try the author of the Internet Demographic Study, John Quarterman,
jsq@tic.com
Hope this helps,
Steve Outing
outings@netcom.com
owner-online-newspapers@marketplace.com
owner-online-news@marketplace.com
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 1994 19:43:43 -0400
From: Edward Vielmetti <emv@recepsen.aa.msen.com>
To: Mark Ackerman <ackerman@ics.uci.edu>
Cc: Steve Outing <outings@netcom.com>, online-world@media.mit.edu
Subject: Re: User of Web.
> How often does the Net change?
If you were going to pursue this systematically, I'd start with
the archives of the "comp.archives" and "comp.infosystems.announce"
newsgroups. Each carefully collects pointers to network resources
and in the case of comp.archives there is pretty good coverage
back to 1991 or so.
Materials tend to change or vanish with the movement of people from
job to job within or between companies. Given network demographics
and the influence of changing technologies, that tends to be pretty
often. I can point to collections that have been consistently
maintained for ten plus years at a stretch (generally well-funded
or stable operations maintained by senior researchers or by organizations
that have some continuity enforced on them by contract) and others
that appear and disappear overnight.
Based on the employment metric I'd put the mean lifespan of an Internet
resource at 18-24 months, with substantial changes to any service
expected at intervals of about 6 months. But there is real live data
out there if you want to work through a master's thesis or something.
--Ed (one time moderator of comp.archives)
Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, Msen Inc. emv@Msen.com
Msen Inc., 320 Miller, Ann Arbor MI 48103 +1 313 998 4562 (fax: 998 4563)
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 1994 23:53:59 -0500 (CDT)
From: Gleason Sackman <sackman@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject: MISC> Net Presence by Industry (fwd)
To: net-happenings <net-happenings@is.internic.net>
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 94 14:36:22 -0500
SENDER: "Mike Walsh" <p00426@psilink.com>
Subject: "Net Presence" by Industry
I always had the intuitive assumption that Internet connectivity
varied between industries so I decided to run a little study to
prove it. I selected seven industries and took all the public
companies in each category. Three of the industries (Apparel, Food
and Electric Power) I assumed would have a low "Internet Presence".
I then ran the names against the InterNIC database. If a company
had either a registered domain, network or host, I classified them
as having "Net Presence". The results are tabulated below.
Three surprises, the Electric Power industry has a higher than
average presence and Biotech and Cable TV have lower than average
presence.
Companies Per Cent
Companies with with
Industry in Sample Net Presence Presence
Apparel 126 10 7.9
Biotech 110 25 22.7
Cable TV 61 10 16.4
Communication Equipment 218 84 38.5
Electric Power 159 54 34.0
Electronic Equipment 226 97 42.9
Food 203 21 10.3
Total 1103 301 27.3
Copyright, 1994 InterNet Info, Falls Church, VA 1994
All rights reserved. This material may be archived and reproduced
in electronic form so long as no fee is charged to the user. It
may not be reproduced in print without permission from InterNet
Info.
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Internet. For more information, email to info@internetinfo.com.
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 1994 11:30:21 -0500 (CDT)
From: Gleason Sackman <sackman@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject: MISC> Commercial Domains - Geographic Distribution by Areacode (fwd)
To: net-happenings <net-happenings@is.internic.net>
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 94 11:15:56 -0500
SENDER: "Mike Walsh" <p00426@psilink.com>
Subject: Commercial Domains - Geographic Distribution by Areacode
Commercial Domains by Area Code
July 15, 1994
As of July 15, 1994 there were 17,002 commercial domains registered
with InterNIC. The following is breakdown of all area codes with
50 or more commercial domains. This analysis is based on the
postal mailing address of the "owner" of the commercial domain and
only covers companies located in the U.S. and Canada.
Area ST
Code .COMs PR Section Some Major Cities
415 1460 CA West Bay Area San Francisco
408 1158 CA Silicon Valley San Jose and Sunnyvale
303 942 CO Northern Boulder and Denver
617 739 MA Boston Area Boston and surrounding area
212 532 NY New York City New York City - Manhattan only
703 527 VA Northern & Western Arlington, Fairfax and Roanoke
510 497 CA East Bay Area Oakland
206 429 WA Western Seattle, Tacoma and Vancouver
619 375 CA San Diego Area San Diego
508 330 MA Eastern Worcester and Framingham
708 318 IL Northeast Aurora, Elgin and Evanston
612 314 MN Central Minneapolis and Saint Paul
416 297 ON Ontario S. Central Toronto
301 285 MD Southern & Western Silver Spring and Frederick
310 285 CA Los Angeles Area Los Angeles
503 282 OR All Parts Portland
714 270 CA Orange County Orange County
713 245 TX Houston Area Houston
512 244 TX Southern Austin and Corpus Christi
214 226 TX Northeast Dallas
313 222 MI Eastern Detroit and Ann Arbor
818 220 CA Los Angeles East Pasadena and San Fernando
602 218 AZ All Parts Phoenix
908 215 NJ Central Elizabeth and New Brunswick
215 213 PA Southeast Philadelphia and Quakertown
203 205 CT All Parts Hartford and New Haven
404 203 GA Northern Atlanta
201 172 NJ Northern Paramus
312 148 IL Chicago Chicago
805 146 CA South Central Bakersfield and Ventura Valley
603 145 NH All Parts Concord and Nashua
216 144 OH Northeast Akron, Cleveland and Youngsto
719 143 CO Southeast Colorado Springs and Pueblo
412 141 PA Western Pittsburgh and New Castle
609 129 NJ Southern Atlantic City and Camden
202 128 DC All Parts Washington
516 120 NY Long Island Hempstead
919 120 NC Eastern Greenville and Raleigh
305 115 FL Southeast Miami and Fort Lauderdale
604 115 BC British Columbia Vancouver
410 114 MD Eastern Baltimore and Annapolis
614 109 OH Southeast Columbus and Zanesville
914 106 NY Southern New Rochelle & White Plains
513 105 OH Southwest Cincinnati and Dayton
801 97 UT All Parts Salt Lake City
314 95 MO Eastern Saint Louis and Columbia
407 93 FL Eastern Orlando, West Palm Beach
718 92 NY New York City NYC - Not than Manhattan
813 88 FL Southwest Tampa and St. Petersburg
613 87 ON Ontario Southeast Ottawa
205 86 AL All Parts Birmingham and Huntsville
213 84 CA Los Angeles - West Los Angeles
804 83 VA Southeast Charlottesville and Norfolk
905 82 NY South Central Hamilton and Niagara Falls
916 80 CA Northern Sacramento and Davis
716 79 NY Western Buffalo and Rochester
505 78 NM All Parts Alburquerque
414 69 WI Eastern Milwaukee and Green Bay
519 69 ON Ontario Southwest London
317 65 IN Central Indianapolis and Kokomo
514 60 QB Quebec Southern Montreal
615 56 TN Eastern Chattanooga and Nashville
803 56 SC All Parts Charleston
704 54 NC Western Charlotte and Salisbury
Copyright, 1994 Internet Info, Falls Church, VA 1994
All rights reserved. This material may be archived and reproduced
in electronic form so long as no fee is charged to the user. It
may not be reproduced in print without permission from InterNet
Info.
InterNet Info compiles information on the commercial activity on
Internet. For more information, email to info@internetinfo.com.
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 94 11:52:30 +0100
From: Gordon Joly <G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
To: Steve Outing <outings@netcom.com>
Cc: Mark Ackerman <ackerman@ics.uci.edu>, online-world@media.mit.edu
Subject: Re: User of Web.
I have found this at
ftp://akasha.tic.com/Gopher
Regards,
Gordo.
This is the TIC Gopher server, providing information about:
Texas Internet Consulting,
its services and publications
Matrix Information and Directory Services,
its monthly newsletter Matrix News,
its quarterly publication Matrix Maps Quarterly,
growth information about networks,
and network services and resources
The Online Bookstore (OBS)
Bruce Sterling's agitprop
EFF-Austin (moved to gopher.zilker.net)
Electronic Frontiers Houston (moved to gopher.zilker.net)
All the Gophers in Texas
And assorted other information
Please note that the different information providers put different emphases
on their information.
TIC and MIDS are commercial, and are providing here samples of their products.
OBS sells books online, but not currently through Gopher.
EFF-Austin and EFH are nonprofit, but sell various items offline.
Bruce Sterling is a well-known science fiction writer, but insists
on giving away his text online.
We provide no warranty express or implied on the use of any of this information.
Please send comments or updates to gopher@tic.com.
Texas Internet Consulting (TIC)
tic@tic.com
+1-512-451-6176
fax: +1-512-450-1436
1106 Clayton Lane, Suite 500W
Austin, TX 78723
U.S.A.
Gordon Joly Phone +44 171 380 7934 FAX +44 171 387 1397
Email: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/~gjoly/
Comp Sci, University College, London, Gower Street, LONDON WC1E 6BT
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 07:46:28 -0600 (CST)
From: Gleason Sackman <sackman@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject: MISC> Latest Internet Host Metrics (fwd)
To: net-happenings <net-happenings@ds0.internic.net>
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 1995 00:54:45 -0500
From: Tony Rutkowski <amr@linus.isoc.org>
To: com-priv@psi.com
Subject: Latest Internet Host Metrics
===============================================================================
PRESS RELEASE
INTERNET SOCIETY
LATEST INTERNET HOST SURVEY AVAILABLE:
The Internet Is Growing Faster Than Ever
Reston VA, USA. 6 Feb 1995. The Internet's most important measurement data
indicating its size and growth was released yesterday by 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 gathered
during late January 1995 are listed. For more information see RFC 1296;
for more data see the zone directory on ftp.nw.com, or http://www.nw.com.
Worth noting are the new host computer count - 4.851 million - and
the 26% growth rate for 4th Quarter 1994 - the largest jump in the recent
history of the internet. Internet hosts in the .com domain continue to
surge ahead as the largest group. It's also worth noting that www-named
host computer now constitute the most numerous on the Internet. The host
count encompassed 90 countries having direct connectivity, as well as
7 transnational domains (com, edu, gov, mil, org, net, and int).
The following extracts of Lottor's data were prepared by the Internet Society.
Powerpoint graphs depicting host growth can be found on the Society's server at
ftp://fpt.isoc.org/isoc/charts/hosts3.ppt and will be updated with this latest
data tomorrow.
Top 31 Country and Global Domains by Size in Jan 1995
---------Growth---------
Jan.95 Hosts 4Q94 1994 3yr growth
com ** 1,316,966 25% 132% 628%
edu ** 1,133,502 15% 60% 366%
UK 241,191 24% 112% 1,171%
gov ** 209,345 8% 62% 351%
Germany 207,717 23% 77% 569%
Canada 186,722 22% 96% 590%
mil ** 175,961 21% 70% 541%
Australia 161,166 20% 50% 409%
org ** 154,578 114% 206% 705%
net ** 150,299 192% 616% 1,796%
Japan 96,632 17% 86% 1,029%
France 93,041 28% 68% 615%
Netherlands 89,227 20% 98% 599%
Sweden 77,594 22% 83% 318%
Finland 71,372 24% 103% 493%
Switzerland 51,512 -4% 40% 306%
Norway 49,725 15% 57% 387%
USA ** 37,615 51% 475% 31,155%
New Zealand 31,215 52% 441% 2,698%
Italy 30,697 14% 80% 1,029%
Austria 29,705 25% 92% 793%
Spain 28,446 19% 141% 1,613%
South Africa 27,040 29% 147% 2,805%
Denmark 25,935 75% 181% 1,344%
Belgium 18,699 31% 125% 5,220%
Korea 18,049 24% 101% 1,103%
Taiwan 14,618 25% 83% 1,710%
Israel 13,251 34% 96% 552%
Hong Kong 12,437 18% 52% 2,725%
Czech 11,580 58% 153%
Poland 11,477 35% 121%
Regional Growth - 1994
Jan.94 Jul.94 Oct.94 Jan.95 4Q94 Growth
North America 1,685,715 2,177,396 2,685,929 3,372,551 26%
CC&S America 7,392 11,455 14,894 * *
Europe, West 550,933 730,429 850,993 1,039,192 22%
Europe, East 19,867 27,800 32,951 46,125 40%
Middle East 6,946 8,871 10,383 13,776 33%
Africa 10,951 15,595 21,041 27,130 29%
Asia 81,355 111,278 127,569 151,773 19%
Pacific 113,482 142,353 154,473 192,390 25%
Total 2,476,641 3,225,177 3,898,233 4,851,873 24%
* Accurate Latin American host counts were not obtained.
** Most global domains are attributed to the USA.
Also note that the RIPE NCC Network Information Center for the European
region makes monthly host counts that are more definitive. Graphic
profiles of the RIPE NCC are now available on the Society's server at
ftp://ftp.isoc.org/isoc/charts/ripe3.ppt and are current as of the
end of January 1995.
The Internet Society is the International Organization for coordination and
cooperation for the Internet, its technologies, and applications worldwide.
For more information see:
http://www.isoc.org
For further information contact:
Internet Society
12020 Sunrise Valley Dr. suite 270
Reston VA 22091
USA
tel: +1 703 648 9888
fax: +1 703 648 9887
email: isoc@isoc.org
===============================================================================
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 08:01:13 -0600 (CST)
From: Gleason Sackman <sackman@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject: MISC> Size of Internet, Matrix from MIDS (John Quarterman) (fwd)
To: net-happenings <net-happenings@ds0.internic.net>
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 16:11:39 EST
From: Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list CARR-L <CARR-L@ulkyvm.bitnet>
Subject: Size of Internet, Matrix from MIDS (John Quarterman)
MIDS Press Release: New Data on the Size of the Internet and the Matrix
From Matrix News, 5(1), January 1995
Please redistribute.
mids@tic.com, http://www.tic.com, +1-512-451-7602, fax: +1-512-452-0127.
How many people use the Internet? Businesses make decisions based on
answers to this question, and governments decide programs on them.
The survey.
Starting 15 October 1994, Matrix Information and Directory Services and
Texas Internet Consulting sent survey questionnaires by electronic mail
to most of the domains representing organizations on the Internet, and
we tabulated responses received through 15 December 1994. We received
1468 usable responses and used them to estimate the sizes of the
Internet and the Matrix as of October 1994.
These are estimates, not exact and definitive figures. However, they
are based on a large sample of the organizations (companies, universities,
governmental agencies, individuals, etc.) on the Internet. Comparing
the domain names of the responses with those of the original survey
list, we calculate a confidence interval of about 38 percent. These
are the only estimates of the size of the Internet that, so far as we
know, have associated any confidence interval at all.
The estimates.
Different people mean different things when they refer to the Internet.
To avoid confusion, we provide definitions along with our estimates.
For the Core Internet, we estimate 7.8 million users (people) of 2.5 million
computers that can *provide* interactive services such as TELNET
(remote login), FTP (file transfer) or WWW (hypertext), as of October 1994.
For the Consumer Internet, we estimate 13.5 million users of 3.5 million
computers that can *use* the interactive services supplied by the core
Internet, for example people who can use Mosaic or Lynx to browse the
World Wide Web, as of October 1994.
For the Matrix, we estimate 27.5 million users who can exchange electronic
mail with other users in the Matrix, as of October 1994.
The Internet and the Matrix.
These categories fit inside each other: the Matrix includes the Consumer
Internet, which includes the Core Internet.
``It's like those Russian dolls,'' said John S. Quarterman, editor of
Matrix News and Matrix Maps Quarterly, ``where you open up Yeltsin and
find Gorbachev, and inside Gorbachev is Brezhnev.''
To find which category fits you, apply these simple tests:
If you can send mail to an address in the Matrix, such as mids@tic.com,
you're in the Matrix.
If you can connect with FTP to ftp.ripe.net, or use Mosaic or Lynx
to reach http://www.ripe.net, you are in the Consumer Internet.
If your computer runs an FTP, TELNET, Gopher, WWW, or other interactive
server that users outside your own organization (your company, university,
etc.) can use, then you're in the Core Internet.
The most important distinction is between the Matrix and the Internet.
Mail is the simplest and most widely used network service, both on the
Internet and on other networks. But it is not the distinctive
characteristic of the Internet, since most other networks have it,
too. The Internet's interactive services, supported by its TCP/IP
protocols, are what distinguish it from other networks. You can access
many of those services by mail, even including FTP, Gopher, and WWW,
but that's a completely different level of convenience, speed, and
utility than using them interactively over the Internet itself.
``WWW by mail is like shopping by mail order catalog,''
said Quarterman, ``while the Internet is like a big shopping mall.''
Where other networks fit.
What about UUCP, FidoNet, WWIVnet, and BITNET? They're all
in the Matrix. These networks are not part of the Internet,
although some of their hosts are. We counted their users in
our estimate of the size of the Matrix.
What about Prodigy, CompuServe, Nifty-Serve, PC-VAN, AT&T Mail, GEnie,
Sprint-Mail, Easy-Link, MCI Mail, and Tymnet? Those ten systems (and
quite a few others like them) are all in the Matrix, but not yet on the
Internet. We have counted the users of these systems in our estimate
for the Matrix. Some of them are moving towards letting their users
use interactive Internet services, and when they do, we will start
counting those that do as part of the Consumer Internet.
A few similar centralized systems, such as AOL, Delphi, and BIX, already
let their users use interactive Internet services, and are therefore
on the Internet, and we counted their users in our Consumer Internet
user estimate. Some of these three systems may actually be in the
Core Internet, but until we're sure we are counting them as being
in the Consumer Internet.
Growth and dates.
The exact size of the Internet can only be estimated, but one thing
that is known for sure by many different measurements is that the
Internet is growing exponentially, approximately doubling in size each
year, and has been doing so for at least the past six years now. Each
year there are as many new people on the Internet as all the people on
the Internet the year before. That's why it is important to cite a
date for any estimate of the size of the Internet. Our estimates here
are for October 1994.
``Here today, lots more tomorrow.'' said Quarterman, ``We'll
be measuring it as it grows.''
About MIDS:
Matrix Information and Directory Services (MIDS) conducts ongoing
investigations about the size, shape, and other characteristics of
the Internet and other networks in the Matrix. MIDS publishes the
monthly newsletter Matrix News and the color Matrix Maps Quarterly,
both on paper and online, and also sells maps and other information.
Smoot Carl-Mitchell is President of MIDS and Managing Editor of its
publications. John S. Quarterman is Editor of both publications,
and Eric McKinney is Assistant Editor.
About TIC:
Texas Internet Consulting (TIC) consults in networks and open systems
with particular emphasis on TCP/IP networks, UNIX systems and standards.
TIC is a partnership, and was founded by Smoot Carl-Mitchell and John
S. Quarterman.
About the principals:
Quarterman and Carl-Mitchell have written three books together:
The E-Mail Companion: Communicating Effectively via the Internet and
Other Global Networks, 1994.
The Internet Connection: System Connectivity and Configuration, 1994
Practical Internetworking with TCP/IP and UNIX, 1993.
Quarterman is a co-author of two other books:
UNIX, POSIX, and Open Systems: The Open Standards Puzzle, 1993.
The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System, 1989.
and sole author of one:
The Matrix: Computer Networks and Conferencing Systems Worldwide, 1990.
For more information contact:
Eric McKinney
Assistant Editor, Matrix News and Matrix Maps Quarterly
telephone: +1-512-451-7602
fax: +1-512-452-0127
mids@tic.com
http://www.tic.com, gopher://gopher.tic.com, ftp://ftp.tic.com
Matrix Information and Directory Services, Inc. (MIDS)
1106 Clayton Lane, Suite 500W
Austin, TX 78723
U.S.A.
Forwarded by List Owner --------------------------------------------
Elliott Parker BITNET: 3ZLUFUR@CMUVM
Journalism Dept. Internet: elliott.parker@cmich.edu
Central Michigan University Compuserve: 70701,520
Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859 USA The WELL: eparker@well.sf.ca.us
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 12:36:32 -0500
To: Shawn O'Donnell <sro@media.mit.edu>
From: simsong@acm.org (Simson L. Garfinkel)
Subject: Re: Internet head counts
Cc: online-world@amt.mit.edu
At 12:14 PM 2/27/95, Shawn O'Donnell wrote:
>Does anyone know of a source for historical information on the
>Internet: number of nodes, alleged number of people, traffic volume &
>stuff like that.
ftp.isoc.org
The Internet Society
>
>Any comments on problems with the various counting methods would be
>appreciated.
>
>And do we know how much of the traffic growth can be attributed to
>various application programs (graphical web browsers, in particular.)
>
>--Shawn
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 14:59:04 -0600 (CST)
From: riddle@is.rice.edu (Prentiss Riddle)
Message-Id: <9502272059.AA17974@is.rice.edu>
Subject: Re: Internet head counts
To: sro@media.mit.edu (Shawn O'Donnell)
Cc: online-world@media-lab.media.mit.edu
> From sro@media.mit.edu Mon Feb 27 11:45:21 1995
> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 95 12:14:33 -0500
> From: Shawn O'Donnell <sro@media.mit.edu>
> Subject: Internet head counts
>
> Does anyone know of a source for historical information on the
> Internet: number of nodes, alleged number of people, traffic volume &
> stuff like that.
>
> Any comments on problems with the various counting methods would be
> appreciated.
>
> And do we know how much of the traffic growth can be attributed to
> various application programs (graphical web browsers, in particular.)
Yahoo and GNN each have a page of links to Internet stats:
http://akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo/Computers/Internet/Statistics_and_Demographics/
http://www.ora.com/gnn/news/feature/inet-demo/web.size.html
For interesting factoids, the standby is the Internet Index (named after
the feature in Harper's magazine):
http://www.openmarket.com/info/internet-index/
John Quarterman and Smoot Carl-Mitchell have been publishing Internet
statistics for several years now, beginning with Quartman's 1990 book
"The Matrix". Here are the URLs for their survey summaries and the
home page of their company, MIDS. The latter will be especially
interesting because it includes lots of wonderful maps and charts;
unfortunately it is MIDS' business to sell these, so the resolution on
the "free samples" isn't always what you'd like:
http://www.tic.com/mids/howbig.html
http://www.tic.com/mids/midshome.html
Both GNN and MIDS refer to a flap in the mainstream media last summer
in which the New York Times claimed that the Internet was much smaller
than had previously been estimated. It sounds to me like a case of the
media succumbing to their own hype, because most reputable
Internet demographers have recognized wide variation all along in the
size of their estimates depending on the survey methods and the
definition of "Internet" used. FYI, a citation for the piece that kicked
off the flap:
Lewis, Peter H.: "Doubts are raised on actual number of Internet's users."
New York Times v143 Wed August 10 1994. pA1(N) pD1(L) col 6
...and the URL for Quarterman's response:
http://www.tic.com/mids/forisoc9412.html
I hope this helps.
-- Prentiss Riddle ("aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada") riddle@rice.edu
-- Systems Programmer and RiceInfo Administrator, Rice University
-- 2002-A Guadalupe St. #285, Austin, TX 78705 / 512-323-0708
-- Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer.
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 20:52:59 -0400
To: nif-all@media.mit.edu
From: gilberte@media.mit.edu (Gilberte Houbart)
Subject: More Internet demographics
You might want to check out the results of a monthly survey about Internet
usage:
http://www.gatech.edu/pitkow/survey/survey-1-1994/survey-results.html
They have nice graphics. The first results were presented at the last
international web conference in Geneva.
(note: participants were mostly male users of Unix workstations. See
Shortcomings section in their paper on results for bias and future
improvements).
If you want to pay your dues and participate (requires a browser that lets
you use forms):
http://www-survey.cc.gatech.edu/cgi-bin/Entry
Gilberte
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 1994 13:55:48 -0400
From: Win Treese >treese@OpenMarket.com<
To: internet-index@OpenMarket.com
Subject: The Internet Index
The Internet Index
Number 2
Inspired by "Harper's Index"*
Compiled by Win Treese <treese@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
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Lenny Foner Last modified: Thu May 18 01:11:07 1995