Current User Growth of the Internet

postel@isi.edu Wed, 15 March 1995 17:19 UTC

Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 09:19:53 -0800
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Subject: Current User Growth of the Internet

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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 11:18:17 -0500
From: Tony Rutkowski <amr@linus.isoc.org>
Subject: Current User Growth

The following reply to the senior editor of a major computer 
publication may also be useful to your firms and institutions.

This is a question that is asked about 2 dozen times a day by 
press, officials, and investors calling here.

--tony

We do know that there are currently 9,500 computer hosts attaching
per day, about 285,000 per month.  Lottor measures the announcement
of hosts every quarter, and our numbers are based on a conservative
mathmatical extrapolation from the Jan 95 count over this first quarter 
1995.  This does not account for many hosts having multiple users, or 
being gateways to other networks, such as closed carrier, enterprise,
or on-line email providers - which has a significant user multiplier 
effect on the 285 thousand.

The statement that there are half a million new users per month, would 
seem quite supportable.

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