>X-Authentication-Warning: po-1.openmarket.com: majordom set sender to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] using -f >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 00:49:10 -0400 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Internet Index #24 >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: bulk > > The Internet Index > Number 24 > Inspired by "Harper's Index"* > Compiled by Win Treese ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Co-author of "Designing Systems for Internet Commerce" > 31 May 1999 > >Through mid-April, amount of money raised by Bill Bradley's campaign > web site, in dollars: 30,000 >Amount spent by Dan Quayle's campaign to start a web site, in dollars: > 26,000 > >Percent increase in the number of registered domains from 1997 to 1999: > 118 >Percentage of total domains registered in .com, in 1998: 84 > >Number of venture capital deals for Internet-related companies, in the > first quarter of 1999: 208 >Average financing in those deals, in millions of dollars: 10 >Average financing for Internet venture deals in 1998, in millions of > dollars: 7.9 > >Amount spent on advertising on the Internet in 1998, in billions of > dollars: 1.9 >Estimated amount spent on outdoor advertising in 1998, in billions of > dollars: 1.6 > >Estimated number of Internet users, worldwide, at the end of 1998: > 147,800,000 >Estimated percentage living in the U.S.: 52 > >Estimated percentage of Australians using the Internet, in 1998: 19 >Estimated percentage of Australians who bought something online, in > 1998: 7 > >Number of U.S. households joining the Internet, per hour: 760 > >Number of commercial e-mail messages sent each day in the U.S., in > billions: 7.3 > >Number of countries with sites on the IPv6 testbed, the "6bone": 41 > >Rank of Finland in number of Internet hosts per capita: 1 > >Price of one pair of Internet Society socks, in dollars: 4 > >See http://www.treese.org/Commerce for more information on >"Designing Systems for Internet Commerce" > >Copyright 1999 by Win Treese. Send updates or interesting statistics to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Harper's Index" is a registered trademark of >Harper's Magazine Foundation. > >Past issues and citations to sources can be found at >http://www.openmarket.com/intindex/. To subscribe to future >issues of the Internet Index, send a message saying "subscribe" >in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
