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Internet Index #13
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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 00:09:20 -0400
From: Win Treese
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The Internet Index Number 13 Inspired by "Harper's Index"* Compiled by Win Treese (treese@OpenMarket.com) 9 June 1996
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 Number reported in 1988: 6
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
Percentage of comics in the Boston Globe listing e-mail addresses: 38 Percentage of comics in the Boston Globe listing URLs: 21
Number of TV networks planning to provide live video broadcast of the 1996 political conventions: 1
Number of Danish e-mail addresses listed in Tele Danmark's directory: 70,000
According to IBM, number of verbs connected companies live by: 5
Amount Bell Atlantic pays to Internet service providers for referring residential customers: $15
Number of plaintiffs in lawsuit contesting the Communications Decency Act: 46
Number of Internet hosts, as of January, 1996: 9.5 million
Number of web servers counted in the June Netcraft Web Server Survey: 252,685
Number of new country Internet domains added in February, 1996: 3
Percentage increase in number of Portuguese Internet hosts, May, 1996: 17
"Harper's Index" is a registered trademark of Harper's Magazine Foundation. Copyright 1996 by Win Treese. Send updates or interesting statistics to treese@OpenMarket.com.
Past issues and citations to sources can be found at http://www.openmarket.com/info/intindex/. 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. ```
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