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Matrix News Extracts 1991-1994

What about Internet growth? Plus encouraging competition. MN 1.2 May 1991 Networks from Technology to Community, by John S. Quarterman Figure 2: Internet Growth and Uses A speculative Internet growth projection, with little underlying data, leading to the question: where can we find Internet growth data? "There are hundreds of thousands of online communities today, many geographically distributed" "places people go, which turn into communities, which develop politics, economics, and legal issues." MN 1.3 June 1991 How Many Users Are On the Internet? by Craig Partridge "the total population is about 1.88 million users." Encouraging Equitable Competition on the Internet, by Mitchell Kapor MN 1.4 July 1991 Cyber Art: The Art of Communication Systems, by Anna Couey "Some artists have envisioned a public cyberspace in which individuals of varying cultures and interests collectively and continually evolve new realities...."

Measuring Internet growth Plus a naive projection to 2002 MN 2.1 January 1992 Origin of the matrix, the Matrix, The Matrix, TIC, MIDS, and Matrix News, by John S. Quarterman Internet Hosts Worldwide (the first Internet growth graphs) MN 2.2 February 1992 How Big Is the Matrix? by John S. Quarterman Internet Hosts, Worldwide and in Europe (linear) HP Internet Hosts (log) (the second Internet growth graphs) 3.635 million Internet users (Conservative estimate) 7.270 million Internet users (Incautious Estimate) A Naive Projection of the Growth of the Internet

Growth and Demographics Still edu, but commercial is catching up. MN 3.12 December 1993 Internet Growth, by John S. Quarterman Internet Growth (log scale) MN 4.1 January 1994 The Internet Demographic Survey, by John S. Quarterman Internet Organization Types, Dec. 1993 Education organizations still bigger Table 1. Results of Internet Demographic Survey 27,000 IP networks reported

The Web Wins Plus commercial beats educational, and the Internet demolishes BITNET MN 4.2 February 1994 Growth of Internet Resource Discovery Services, by John S. Quarterman "but the clear winner ... is WWW." Internet Resource Discovery Services by Bytes Internet Resource Discovery Services by Packets MN 4.5 May 1994 The Internet: Commercial vs. Educational by John S. Quarterman Figure 1. Internet Top Level Domains, Jan. 1994 Edu stalled, com continued. Internet Hosts, total, com, and edu MN 4.10 October 1994 The Rise and Fall of BITNET, by Eric McKinney, John S. Quarterman, and Gretchen Phillips BITNET in the U.S. and Worldwide, and the Internet Press Myth of the Month: The Ban on Advertising on the Internet, by Eric McKinney

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MN 1.2 May 1991 Networks from Technology to Community, by John S. Quarterman Figure 2: Internet Growth and Uses Networks, cont. "There are hundreds of thousands of online communities today, many geographically distributed" "places people go, which turn into communities, which develop politics, economics, and legal issues." Who to Contacts

MN 1.3 June 1991 How Many Users Are On the Internet? by Craig Partridge "the total population is about 1.88 million users." The Top Ten Media Errors About the SJ Games Raid updated 5-12-91, by Steve Jackson Encouraging Equitable Competition on the Internet, by Mitchell Kapor

MN 1.4 July 1991 Cyber Art: The Art of Communication Systems, by Anna Couey "Some artists have envisioned a public cyberspace in which individuals of varying cultures and interests collectively and continually evolve new realities...."

MN 2.1 January 1992 Origin of the matrix, the Matrix, The Matrix, TIC, MIDS, and Matrix News, by John S. Quarterman Internet Hosts Worldwide (the first Internet growth graphs) SCAN0395

MN 2.2 February 1992 How Big Is the Matrix? by John S. Quarterman Internet Hosts, Worldwide and in Europe (linear) HP Internet Hosts (log) UUCP, BITEARN, FidoNet, and the Matrix 3.635 million Internet users (Conservative estimate) 7.270 million Internet users (Incautious Estimate) A Naive Projection of the Growth of the Internet SCAN0403

MN 2.4 April 1992 Matchmaker Links UNIX Users, by Jon Boede Table 2. Percentages for 8721 Users. Map + "the cybermutt, a computer simulation of a dog that responds to peoples' commands." Table 3. Major Sites and Phone Numbers "expansion up to some 25 or 50 systems"

MN 2.10 October 1992 How Big is the Global Classroom? by Seth J. Itzkan What I Did During My Vacation, or Yes, There Was Networking Between the Sushi by Randy Bush Where is BITNET? by John S. Quarterman 4. BITNET Worldwide by John S. Quarterman Table 2. BITNET hosts by country; Figure: EARN in Europe 6. BITNET in the United States BITNET end; Global cont.; Internet Wilderness Society by Steve Cisler Global end with projections and table The Matrix Spans the East: Computer Networks in the xUSSR by Bob Travica and Matthew Hogan 3. GlasNet - Glasnost to the People 4. SUEARN - Freshman's Troubles Matrix News subsription form

MN 3.12 December 1993 Internet Growth, by John S. Quarterman Internet Growth (log scale)

MN 4.1 January 1994 The Internet Demographic Survey, by John S. Quarterman Internet Organization Types, Dec. 1993 Education organizations still bigger Table 1. Results of Internet Demographic Survey 27,000 IP networks reported

MN 4.2 February 1994 Growth of Internet Resource Discovery Services, by John S. Quarterman, "but the clear winner ... is WWW." Internet Resource Discovery Services by Bytes (Logarithmic Scale) Internet Resource Discovery Services by Packets (Logarithmic Scale)

MN 4.5 May 1994 The Internet: Commercial vs. Educational Internet Hosts, total, com, and edu (Logarithmic Scale)

MN 4.10 October 1994 The Rise and Fall of BITNET, by Eric McKinney, John S. Quarterman, and Gretchen Phillips BITNET in the U.S. and Worldwide BITNET in the U.S. and Worldwide, and the Internet