Number 14, Year 4, May - Julio 1999
INTERNET IN NUMBERS
By: Fernando Gutiérrez and Octavio Islands
Professor of the Department of Communication | ITESM-CEM
The present article was published originally in the Mexican Magazine of Communication in its number of January-maro of 1999
A great number of studious on the subject of Internet and its inherent technologies, agrees in the relativity of the statistics that represent the growth and development of the network with respect to the users. Perhaps the problem arises as a result of the ignorance of means. Some institutions try to measure to Internet with tools and methods used for the analysis of any other conventional means of communication, without considering the great differences of this new technology.
Nevertheless all the numbers that are published on Internet are not uncertain. At the ritalin without prescription diverse reliable studies on the development of Internet in the matter of networks, servants, electronic pages, and dominions exist.
The studies developed or supported by solid organizations like Internet Society, the Internet Engineering ritalin prescription online Force (IETF), Internet Architecture Board (IAB), and the Consortium World Wide Web are an example of it. This type of institutions, founders, and now administrators of Internet knows the mechanisms adapted for the monitoring the network.
Particularly Internet Society (ISOC), the international organization in charge of the supervision of standards and ritalin prescription online of the infrastructure of Internet, that ritalin prescription online groups to ritalin prescription online institutions and 6.000 individuals in more than 100 countries, presents/displays to the international community of Internet a series of interesting data that demonstrates the historical growth of Internet with respect to the number of computers, networks, dominions, countries, and WWW sites.
The following tables ritalin prescription online the impressive growth that has had Internet ritalin prescription online the past few years as a result of the sprouting of new technologies, the process of globalisation and the development of new societies of communication. The numbers contained in the following tables are approved by the ISOC:
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Table 2. Number of computers, networks ritalin prescription online dominions in Internet (1969-1998).
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