More than 60 Million Computers Are Now on the Internet

• Ever since 1987 the Internet Software Consortium (http://www.isc.org/) has run a semiannual survey to count the number of "hosts" on the internet.
  
• By the end of 1999 their count will hit 60 million: 60 million computers, all accessible one to another through the global internet.
  
• In October 1990 there were only 300,000 computers on the internet.
  
• In August of 1981 there were only 213.