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18 Oct
Internet Index #15

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From: Peter Langston <psl>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 96 23:28:03 -0700
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Subject: Internet Index #15

From: Win Treese <treese@OpenMarket.com>


                               The Internet Index
                                   Number 15
                         Inspired by "Harper's Index"*
                 Compiled by Win Treese (treese@OpenMarket.com)
                                17 October 1996

Number of Brazilian orphans to be available for adoption on the Internet:
	48

Number of e-mail address entries, per person, on the MIT alumni
	contribution form: 2

Number of ill chess players rescued after calling for help on the
	Internet: 1

Number of entries in Maclean's magazine Internet directory, 9/2/96: 7

Number of US states with "wanted lists" of child support offenders on
	the Internet: 7

Percentage of comics in the Boston Globe with Internet addresses: 63

Percentage of the first 20 ads in the October '96 Scientific American
	with Web addresses: 75
Percentage of the first 20 ads in the October '96 Scientific American with
	toll-free numbers: 70

Percentage of the first 20 ads in the October 7, 1996, Business Week
	with Web addresses: 60
Percentage of the first 20 ads in the October 7, 1996 Business Week with
	toll-free numbers: 80

Percentage of on-line users who prefer to remain anonymous when visiting
	Websites: 60

Amount, in millions of dollars, President Clinton proposes to spend for
	expanding Internet capacity at universities: 500
Amount, in millions of dollars, Microsoft spends to plan promoting MSN
	in the next 12 months: 100

Number of visitors to NetAction's Internet kiosk near the San Francisco
	Civic Center during one week: 100
Number of volunteers who staffed the kiosk: 26

Number of e-mail messages to the FBI about the crash of TWA Flight 800
	in the first eleven days after the crash: 900

Maximum prison term, in years, for possessing an unauthorized modem in
	Myanmar (Burma): 15

Copyright 1996 by Win Treese. Send updates or interesting statistics to
treese@OpenMarket.com. "Harper's Index" is a registered trademark of
Harper's Magazine Foundation.

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