The Internet...

... is a global inter-connection of
computer networks:

Several tens of thousands of miles of cables and optical fibres,

linking millions of computers to

tens of millions of people

transferring billions of bytes of information!

 

 

 

It's not coming. It's here.

Virtual reality, the information superhighway, multimedia, the Internet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just a few years ago the giant software company

Microsoft

didn't think the Internet was worthy of much attention

then they had a radical rethink!

Why?

 

 

 

Some of the many
Facts and Figures about the Internet

Some of this data was collected in 1997 and may therefore under-estimate actual trends.

How many people are on the Internet?

Over 100 million and still growing fast!

By the year 2000
50 percent of Internet users will be women.

The most staggering statistics about the Internet
relate to the speed of its growth

 

 

Number of Web servers

1994

1,250

1997

over 1,000,000

 

 

 

Everyone is talking about the global growth of the Internet
and its impact on business, research, education, and society.

How wide ranging is the impact?

1996

170 countries were connected to the Internet.

now

Over 100 million people on the Internet

2000

250 million people worldwide
will have access to the Internet

 

 

 

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) market has exploded!

1996

$1.9 billion

1997

$8.4 billion

1998

(estimated)

$10.8 billion

 

 

There are now over 100 million documents on the Internet
and by the year 2000 there could be up to 800 million.

 

 

Closer to home...

Europe

Although the US currently represents the largest on-line market, some predictions indicate that Europe may take the lead by 2005.

In the UK

Email use in the workplace and at home is growing rapidly.

Email is now used by at least 7 million people in the UK.

 

Most UK SMEs and large organisations are now online

 

Even in 1997, 81 percent of SMEs recognised that the Internet
would be an intrinsic part of their future
and expected to be online by 2002.

UK Web design market is estimated to be worth well over £100 million,
and likely to grow at 40 percent per annum.

 

 

 

 

 

 

... so what can the Internet do
that makes it so successful?

 

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This material was produced by Acro Logic.