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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

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