Internet of the Present (rapid expansion)
- Today there are more than one hundred thousand networks and thirty-five million computers connected to the Internet with more than one hundred million Internet users.
- More than one hundred countries now provide full Internet access while E-mail is available in more than 150 countries.
- Within twenty-five years, the Internet has expanded from a few sites in the United States to almost every country in the world.
- The Internet is growing at 80-100% a year.
- Every thirty minutes another computer network somewhere in the world is attached to the Internet.
- One of the biggest changes to the Internet in the last five years is the rapid commercialization of the Internet.
- More than 10% of the Internet users have made a purchase using the Internet:
- 1998 - there are approximately three million servers providing access to web documents
- In May 1998, Headcount reported that there are 55 million accessing the Internet in English.
- In June 1998, Matrix Information and Directory Services (MIDS) reported that there are 102 million accessing the Internet in The World.
- MIDS estimates that the total number of worldwide Internet users will grow to 707 million by 2001.
Internet users today are not limited to E-mail, ftp and telnet.
