From: Mustafa Akgul (akgul@Bilkent.EDU.TR)
Date: Wed 20 Sep 2000 - 17:04:59 EEST
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 09:31:00 -0500
Subject: RESOUR> How Big is the Internet? -- Network Nuggets
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Subject: How Big is the Internet? -- Network Nuggets
[[[ HOW BIG IS THE INTERNET? ]]]
This question leads to several others, like how Internet size
is measured. Fortunately, a number of organizations seek to
measure Internet size. Students at many grade levels can
investigate the size and the reach of the Internet, or just
the World Wide Web portion of it, at:
http://www.usic.org/
United States Internet Council, an industry-sponsored public
policy group.
-- they have recently published a "State of the Internet"
report which is available for viewing or download. It
is rather densly written, but has a good executive
summary; it may be useful for your Information Technology
teaching at the senior grades, or in a Journalism or
Technical Communication course.
-- excerpt: the Web now has 2 billion pages available for
viewing. That's double the number of a year ago.
http://www.netsizer.com/ and http://www.isc.org/ds/
The Telecordia NetSizer claims to show the Internet's growth in
real time. ISC's Internet Domain survey measures the same
data (number of hosts) but gets a different answer. Can your
students judge which answer is more reliable? (Both sites
explain their sampling techniques -- Grade 10 Math teachers
take note!)
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/779/govtaff/factsNStats/index.html
Cisco systems maintains a public repository of Net statistics,
citing sources for each. Here you can learn how many emails
were sent last year, how many children in the U.S. have
Internet access in their bedrooms, and so on. The site is a
project resource for about Grade 6 and upwards.
Finally... what does the Internet look like? Many people
attempt to produce maps or diagrams of it--in effect, to
study its geography instead of simply its size. Students
with fast Web connections can sample these Internet maps at
http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/atlas.html . Some would
make eye-catching Information Technology project illustrations.
Some are interactive; for example, students can watch a map and
the time it takes for an Internet message to "hop" from server
to server across the globe. (Software from that site can be purchased and
installed on your school's server, so your
students can watch their own emails flying across the world.)
I can't resist a little self-promotion here... how big is
CLN (http://www.cln.org), our companion site of useful
education resources? Its popularity this year is running
50% higher than last year, with page requests coming from
60,000 different Web servers each month, and I expect it
will reach a million hits a month before the school year
is out. There -- "bigness" has been reported three ways.
Ask your students which of those three numbers is the best
measure of site popularity.
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