WEB FACTS
Percentage of on-line users who watch TV and PC screens simultaneously:
40
Source: Showtime
Percentage of Webmasters who like the term Webmaster”: 44.6
Source: Web Week
Percentage increase in number of on-line auction sites listed by Yahoo,
April to June, 1997: 140
Source: Inc. Technology
Number of root name servers: 13
Number of miles of undersea telephone cables: 186,000
In 1997, annual percentage growth rate of data traffic on undersea
telephone cables: 90
Source: Wall Street Journal
Percentage of software publishers offering technical support on the web:
80
Source: Survey by Software Publishers Association
Percentage growth rate, per month, in Internet access revenues (October,
1997): 24.9
Percentage of apartment units in New York’s Grand Millenium
“CyberBuilding” equipped with T1 lines for Internet access: 100
Source: Small Business Computing
Percentage of Web users who consider Web access “indispensable”: 82
Source: GVU 8th WWW Survey
Estimated number of web users in the U.S.: 57,037,000
Source: Relevant Knowledge
Cost of the 1997 Statistical Abstract of the United States (hardcover
book), in dollars: 39
Cost of the 1997 Statistical Abstract of the United States (CD-ROM, with
links to Internet sites for updates), in dollars: 50
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
Expected year that the U.S. Census Bureau will use the Internet for the
census: 2010
Source: St. Petersburg Times
Number of time servers operated by the U.S. National Institute of
Standards and Technology: 7
Source: NIST
Estimated number of web pages, as of April, 1998, in millions: 320
Source: New York Times
Percentage of U.S. government agencies rated as being in full compliance
with the Electronic Freedom of Information Act: 0
Source: OMB Watch
Number of Internet service providers in Saudi Arabia: 0
Source: CNET
Estimated cost to businesses in Britain and Ireland of dealing with spam
e-mail, in billions of dollars: 8
Source: ComputerWorld