The Internet Index

Here is Internet Index #7 annnotated with sources and the directory of all editions.

Percentage increase in number of hosts in Europe during March, 1995: 11

Number of people requesting information from Fidelity Investments over the Internet in March and April: approx. 250,000
Average number of requests, per person: 4
Percentage of overall fund inquiries that came in via the Internet: 5.5

Time, in minutes, to download America On-Line's web browser (at 14.4 Kbits/sec): 25

Average number, per hour, of new subscribers to Netcom over the past year: 11

Number of books about love and sex on the Internet: 5

Suggested donation, in dollars, for subscribers to the inet-marketing mailing list: 25

Percentage increase in number of hits on FEMA web server in the week following the Oklahoma City bombing: 150

Number of web pages indexed by the Lycos Internet catalog: 3.6 million

Number of WWW servers known to Lycos: 23,550

Number of subscribers to NiftyServe: 1 million
Number of subscribers to CompuServe in Europe: 300,000

Percentage of NSFnet traffic from WWW during March, 1995: 19

Number of users on the Internet: No one really knows

Number of Internet Draft documents issued in March, 1995: 142

Number of new domain requests, per working hour, handled by InterNIC Registration Services in March, 1995: 37

Number of Massachusetts localities with domains registered in March, 1995: 92

Number of Norwegian television shows with a WWW home page: 4

Rank, by traffic volume, of rec.games.trading-cards.marketplace: 12

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