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General Internet Statistics - Table 005

        Table 005
	Numbers of WWW sites, Dec 90-Jan 98
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	Date         No. of Web servers        Internet Host/
	                                     Web server ratio
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        1991 May*              1                 490,000 (d)
	1992 Nov*             26                  43,692
	1993 Jan*             50                  26,260
	1993 Jul**           130                  13,661
	1993 Sep       Mosaic is released (a)
	1993 Oct*            200 plus                 ??
	1993 Dec**           623                   3,558
	1994 Jan (b)         880 **                2,519
	1994 Jun*          1,500 plus              2,140
	1994 Jul**          2,738                  1,173
        1994 Oct       Netscape is released (c)
	1994 Dec**         10,022                    484
	1995 Jul**         23,500                    283
	1996 Jan**        100,000                     95
	1996 Jun***       300,000                     43
	1997 Jan***       650,000                     30
	1997 Jul***     1,203,096                     16.2
	1998 Jan***     1,834,710                     16.2
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	* web data from Cailliau (1995), host data from Network Wizards (1998)
	** web and host data from Gray (1996)
	*** web data from Zakon (1998),  host data from Network Wizards (1998)
  	(a) NCSA releases free working versions of Mosaic browser
	for all common platforms: X, PC/Windows and Macintosh.
	(b) On the 25 Jan 1994, on the day of launching Coombsweb (coombs.anu.edu.au),
	there were around 850-880 WWW servers registered with CERN. Host data from
        Network Wizards (1998)
        (c) Reid (1997:33)
        (d) estimated from Network Wizards (1998) data from Jan 91 and Jul 97