Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine / Volume 1, Number 6 / October 1, 1994 / Page 16


From the Nets...

by John December (john@december.com)

Waves...

Birthday's: the Internet is celebrating its 25th ... » Global Network Navigator from O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. is one year old, as is Oscar Nierstrasz's CUI W3 Catalog ... » The MTV.COM web, although no longer a domain of Adam Curry, started a year ago this month... »

Threads...

How many are we? Nobody thought of mandating a decennial census of cyberspace, so we don't know exactly many people use the Internet or the Matrix. Reports and studies this summer put the number of people who use the Internet lower than what had previously been hyped (talk was in terms of tens of millions). This broke some balloons, and put some commercial and press interests in a quandry, perhaps wondering, perhaps, is the Internet really such a big thing? ... » John S. Quarterman writing in Matrix News, 4(6), June 1994, provided a detailed discussion of this "Internet number[population]" FAQ pegging the number of Internet users at approximately 7 million in June 1994 (John S. Quarterman, Editor, Matrix News, Austin, Texas, mids@tic.com). ... » What's tricky is that this is the Internet number. Quarterman, himself the inventor of the term the Matrix (the set of all computers that can exchange electronic mail, which includes Internet, BITNET, UUCP, FidoNet, and WWIVnet) observes that the numbers in the Matrix, outside the Internet, push the total number of email-connected people higher; he emphasizes that there is no simple, definitive answer to this question. ... » Although the lower-than-hyped 7 million has shaken some developers, this shaking is barely perceptible on the Web, where NSFNET Backbone stats (not a measure of all Web byte traffic, but often taken as a growth indicator) have topped the terabyte-per-month level ( See Georgia Tech's NSFNET statistic's page for more information and discussion). ... »

Catches...

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