Figure 1

Internet Host Count - January 2001

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Figure 2

Development of Hosts per 1,000 Inhabitants: 1996-2001

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Figure 3

Internet Penetration in EU Homes (%) - October 2000

Figure 4

Pioneering Inventions in Computer Networking

EUROPE USA

PACKET-SWITCHING

First half of the 1960s

Donald Davies

National Physical Laboratory, United Kingdom

Paul Baran

RAND Corporation

DATAGRAM
TECHNOLOGY
(TCP/IP)

First half of the 1970s

Louis Pouzin/
Hubert Zimmerman
 

Cyclade Project, France

Vinton Cerf/
Robert Kahn
 

Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)

WORLD WIDE WEB
(WWW)

Early 1990s

Tim Barners-Lee/
Robert Calliau

European Particle Physics Laboratory (CERN)

Marc Andreessen
 

National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Later: NETSCAPE Corporation
 
 

Figure 5

Internet Domain Name Registrars

Source: ICANN (April 04, 2001). Only generic Top Level Domains (.com; .net; .org)

Figure 6

European and National Internet Service Providers Associations

(*question marks indicate: no membership data available)
©2001 by Werle
formated and tagged by S.H., 21.6.2001