WebHints: Growth Of The Internet

Number Of Hosts On The Internet

As at Jan 1996, there were about 9.5 millions hosts (NetWiz).
As at Jan 1996, there were about 240,000 domains (NetWiz).
General Magic Internet Hosts Graph
General Magic Projected Internet Hosts Graph
General Magic Internet Domains Graph
General Magic WWW Domain Graph
General Magic Domain Graph
General Magic Two-Letter-Domain Graph 1
General Magic Two-Letter-Domain Graph 2
General Magic Two-Letter-Domain Graph 3
General Magic Two-Letter-Domain Graph 4
General Magic Two-Letter-Domain Graph 5
Graph of Internet Hosts

Number Of People On The Internet

At March 1996, the Internet had about 30 million users (W3ID).
About 10 million of these are using the web (Customized Information)
The number of people on the Internet is growing at 10% per month (W3ID).
The number of people on the Internet is doubling each year (Robert Orenstein's Irresponsible Internet Statistics Generator).
One estimate says there will be 100 million users by 1998 (W3ID).
Internet Consultants Internet Users Graph

Demographics

Note: NUA (Internet Consultants) is an innovative Irish company that (among other things) publishes Internet statistics. Check out their web for information on their free email newsletters.

Growth Of The Web

At June 1996 there were at least 30 million web pages (AltaVista).
At June 1996 there were at least 225,000 web servers (AltaVista).
General Magic WWW Domain Graph
Internet Consultants Projected Web Sales Graph
Netcraft WebServer Market Share Statistics
Netcraft WebServer Market Share Graphs

Growth Of Newsgroups

AltaVista: At June 1996 there were about 14,000 news groups.

Internet Statistics Links

Here are the websites from which I constructed the links above. Many of the links above dive straight into the middle of these websites, so there is a high chance that the links will eventually go bad. When they do, you can dig up the information by referring to the following, more central, pages.