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- From: jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid)
- Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
- Subject: Re: Number of computers on the Internet
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.050835.10430@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 05:08:35 GMT
- References: <1992Nov22.004311.27991@cs.sfu.ca>
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- In article <1992Nov22.004311.27991@cs.sfu.ca> fass@cs.sfu.ca (Dan Fass) writes:
- >Does anyone know of an Internet source where I can get up-to-date stats about
- >the number of computers and users on the Internet?
- >
- >The most recent estimate I have right now is that "nearly one million"
- >computers were connected to the Internet at the end of July 1992, up from
- >"about 730,000" in January 1992 (source: April Streeter, How to Get your
- >Company on Internet. MacWEEK, Vol 6, No. 36, 12th October 1992, p.22). Given
- >the explosive growth of the Internet between January and July, the number of
- >computers must be well past one million by now!
- >
- Although it is hard to estimate the number of computers on the connected
- net (the main problem is what counts? anywhere you can send email to?
- ip packets?), but I was told by someone who at least looked authoritative
- that there are 1.3 million hosts, as of October, with a doubling time that
- is between 6 and 7 months.
-
- "Buy optic futures"
- jem.
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