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OCR: RKS Inte rne Gro wth How biq the Internet? To measure the azIs of the Internet you can consider how many computers are connected how many people use or how much data flows through Whatever measurement you use the Internet is huge and continues to grow InfoWeb In 1969 the ARPANET consisted four computers 1980 the Internet included 200 compute ers By the beginning of 1997 the Internet had mushroomed to include 1.7 million comput ers not counting compute ers temporary connect tions The graph Interne in 8-2 shows the incredible increase in the number of computers on the Internet Statistic over just the past vears Today the Internet is the largest and most used network the world, serv ing an esti- mated 57 million people in 194 countries Over 15 million households in the 700,000 households in C ...