Internet Traffic
Traffic on the Internet has doubled every 100 days.
In 1994, a mere 3 million people were connected to the Internet.
By the end of 1997, more than 100 million were using it.
 

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Faster Growth

The Internet is growing faster than
all other technologies
that have preceded it.

Radio existed for 38 years before it had 50 million listeners,
and television took 13 years to reach that mark.
The Internet crossed the line in just four years.

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Internet Commerce

Internet commerce and business
will likely surpass US$300 billion by 2002.

Using credit cards, 10 million people in
the United States and Canada had
purchased something on the WWW by the end of 1997,
an increase from 4.7 million people six months earlier.

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Source: The Emerging Digital Economy,
April 1998 report of the United States Department of Commerce.


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The following high-definition computer animation images educate general audiences about the exponential growth of networking in the US and world. A data visualization spanning a two-year period represents rapid traffic growth that exceeds ten's of billions of bytes per day. The following images have been reproduced from Visualization Study of the NSFNET by Donna Cox and Robert Patterson (NCSA)with the sole purpose of academic discussion, evaluation, research and in compliance with the copyright law of the United States as defined and stipulated under Title 17 U. S. Code.