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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Size of the Internet
- Message-ID: <921112215914.543999@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 21:59:00 GMT
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- Organization: The Internet
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- I seem to remember that someone on this newsgroup/interest list recently
- asked about the size of the Internet. (Not that it has much to do with
- AppleII's, but I'm sure it was here, because it struck me as being a
- strange place to ask.) Anyway, in going over some notes from the recent
- National Computer Security Conference I ran across the information.
- Within the last few months (the numbers are constantly going upwards at
- an accelerating rate) it was estimated there are 1.3 million host
- computers on the Internet, with an estimated 4.5 million total number of
- users. Note that the low ratio between those two numbers implies there
- a lot of hosts with one or two or three users, e.g., individual
- workstations.
-
- Ted Lee <tmplee@TIS.COM>
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