Subject: Internet Index #5 (Growth of WWW traffic in 1994: 1713%) From: Win Treese The Internet Index Number 5 Inspired by "Harper's Index"* Compiled by Win Treese (treese@OpenMarket.com) 31 December 1994 Growth of Gopher traffic in 1993: 1076% Growth of Gopher traffic in 1994: 197% Growth of WWW traffic in 1993: 443,931% Growth of WWW traffic in 1994: 1713% Growth in NSFnet traffic in 1994: 110% Advertised network numbers in November, 1993: 19,664 Advertised network numbers in November, 1994: 42,883 Number of Internet access providers with service in Quito, Ecuador: 1 Number of countries reachable by electronic mail in 1993: 137 (approx.) Number of countries reachable by electronic mail in 1994: 159 (approx.) Number of countries on the Internet in 1994: 81 Number of countries on the Internet in 1993: 60 Number of sites participating in "First Night in Cyberspace": 10 Number of peer-reviewed scholarly journals published electronically on the Internet: over 70 Number of attendees at Internet World, January, 1992: 272 Number of attendees at Internet World, December, 1994: over 10,000 Number of "cybercafes" in the United Kingdom: 1 Number of subscribers to the ClariNet electronic newspaper: 80,000 Number of FBI cases officially publicized on the Internet: 1 Percentage increase in weight of the 2nd edition of the Canadian Internet Handbook: 280 Number of meetings of the Internet Engineering Task Force, through 1994: 31 Number of US Youth Soccer teams with web pages: 2 On average, number of days between issuing of new Internet RFCs in 1994: 2 Number of phone calls to InterNIC Registration Services during November, 1994: 1,964 Number of Internet messages causing Microsoft to issue a press release denying them: 1 "Harper's Index" is a registered trademark of Harper's Magazine Foundation. Copyright 1994 by Win Treese. Send updates or interesting statistics to treese@OpenMarket.com. A copy of the Index annotated with sources can be found at http://www.openmarket.com/info/internet-index/current-sources.html. To subscribe to future issues of the Internet Index, send a message saying "subscribe internet-index" in the body to internet-index-request@OpenMarket.com. Visit Open Market's electronic commerce service at http://www.openmarket.com. -- --SCott Dickson Postmaster, Sysadmin, Newsadmin Penn State Center for Academic Computing dickson@cac.psu.edu +1 814-865-0829