Scale - Size and location
By 1987 more than 20,000 hosts world-wide and growing at 15% per month
By July 1994: 20,000 networks attached to the Internet in the
U.S. with another 15,000 world-wide - and growing at a rate of
15-20%/month! More than 30 Million people in 135 countries
have access.
In the first six months of 1996, registered internet domains grew by 248,000 - to a total of ~500K![5]
For comparison - Cellular telephony
- growing at 63%/year in Western Europe
- growing at 47%/year in North America
Thus, the number of Internet users is comparable to the number of cellular subscribers
[5] Network Wizzards, Menlo Park, CA, http://www.nw.com
