The Internet Index
                               Number 6
                    Inspired by "Harper's Index"*
            Compiled by Win Treese (treese@OpenMarket.com)
                           12 February 1995

Estimated number of people who can use interactive services on the Internet:
                13.5 million

Percentage of movie ads with Internet addresses in the Boston Globe on
                12 February 1995: 8

Number, per day, of Prodigy users registering to use Prodigy's World-Wide
                Web access: 15,000
Price, per hour, of World-Wide Web access on Prodigy after the first
                five hours: $2.95

Average time, in minutes during business hours, between registrations
                of new domains: 2

Cost of access, per minute, to Internet services at Cybersmith: 17.5 cents
Cost, per cup, of cappuccino to enjoy while surfing: $2.00
        (Cybersmith is a new store in Cambridge, Massachussetts).

Percentage increase in number of Internet hosts from October, 1994,
                and January, 1995: 26
Percentage increase in number of registered domains from October, 1994,
                 and January, 1995: 28

Number of Norwegian television shows with a WWW home page: 1

Number of financial service firms with registered domains: 398
Percentage increase in the number of financial service firms with
               registered domains during 1994: 197

Estimated number of USENET sites, worldwide: 260,000
Estimated number of readers of the USENET group rec.humor.funny: 480,000

Percentage of WWW users who are single: 53

Percentage of Australian homes with a personal computer: 25

Number of regional networks acquired by Bolt, Beranek, and Newman: 3

Rank of TOPTEN, a mailing list about David Letterman's Top Ten list,
                among LISTSERV mailing lists: 1
Number of subscribers: over 27,000

Annual fee, in pounds, of dialup access to the Internet with British Telecomm:
                1750

Percentage of Estonian elementary and secondary schools connected to
     the Internet: 16

Estimated number of U.S. newspapers offering interactive access: 3,200

Estimated number of jobs that would be created under proposed
deregulation of the telecommunications industry: 1.4 million

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Copyright 1995 by Win Treese. Send updates or interesting statistics to
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