Size of the Internet

[TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL]

I seem to remember that someone on this newsgroup/interest list recently
asked about the size of the Internet.  (Not that it has much to do with
AppleII's, but I'm sure it was here, because it struck me as being a
strange place to ask.)  Anyway, in going over some notes from the recent
National Computer Security Conference I ran across the information.
Within the last few months (the numbers are constantly going upwards at
an accelerating rate) it was estimated there are 1.3 million host
computers on the Internet, with an estimated 4.5 million total number of
users.  Note that the low ratio between those two numbers implies there
a lot of hosts with one or two or three users, e.g., individual
workstations.

Ted Lee <tmplee@TIS.COM>