[IP] Re: NSF and the Birth of the Internet

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>
Date: August 19, 2008 11:55:53 AM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Re: [IP] Re:      NSF and the Birth of the Internet
Reply-To: simon@higgs.com

Here are the NSFNET stats for WWW vs. Gopher traffic:

WWW TRAFFIC OVER NSFNET BACKBONE - IN MEGABYTES/MONTH

MONTH/YEAR       WWW      GOPHER
Dec 92            78      34,247
Jan 93           122      43,238
Feb 93           512      60,897
Mar 93         3,613      79,024
Apr 93         8,116      89,074
May 93        17,298     103,870
Jun 93        35,701     111,881
Jul 93        48,728     139,006
Aug 93        50,779     148,795
Sep 93        75,401     198,096
Oct 93       122,174     250,785
Nov 93       172,340     291,133
Dec 93       225,443     309,691
Jan 94       269,129     374,681
Feb 94       347,503     396,066
Mar 94       518,084     480,690
Apr 94       671,950     517,625
May 94       799,163     555,708
Jun 94       946,539     567,479
Jul 94     1,056,081     555,089

Source: http://www.ibiblio.org/cmc/mag/1994/oct/webip.html




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