bet you did not know this

[David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

Posted-Date: Wed, 6 Jul 1994 22:05:27 -0400
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Date: Wed, 6 Jul 1994 13:02:35 -0800
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From: tenney@netcom.com (Glenn S. Tenney)
Subject: Re: traffic through the NSFnet


At 10:20 AM 7/6/94 -0400, Ken Deutsch wrote:
>On Wed, 6 Jul 1994, Bob Weber wrote:
>> In the NYT of sunday june 19th, there is a table (on page
>> 6 of the business section) shoing the biggest internet users.
>> AT&T Data Communications Services is 6th, after
>> walnut creek CD-ROM
>> Netcom
>> DEC, palo alto
>> Apple
>> Digital Express.
>
>The Times article chart was a chart of Internet traffic through the NSF -
>not through the Internet - which was just one of the many flaws with the
>article.


So the single largest user (in bits) of the NSF is a 100% commercial use...
(Walnut Creek publishes CD-ROMs of the things they gather off the net).



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