Newsgroups: bit.listserv.pacs-l
Date:         Wed, 16 Dec 1992 08:22:48 CDT
From:         Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <LIBPACS@UHUPVM1.BITNET>
Subject:      December Hunt Results, Pt. 3 of 3

From: lb05gate@UCSBUXA.BITNET (Rick Gates)
Subject: December Hunt Results, Pt. 3 of 3

9. (3) Where is the ACM's SIGGRAPH '93 Conference being held next
August?

Winner's Answer
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University of California - Santa Cruz InfoSlug System
<select>        The World/
<select>        Other Internet Gopher Servers
<select>        Search many (250) Internet gopher menus by SINGLE keyword
                        "siggraph"
<select>        SGRAPH93; ACM SIGGRAPH'93 Conference Proceedings
                        answer: Anaheim, CA  August 1 -6, 1993

Other Answers
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   gopher at University of Minnesota
   All the Gophers in the World/
   ACM SIGGRAPH/
   conferences/
   Siggraph93/
   READ_ME
   Anaheim, California

10. (3) I've heard it said that traffic on the Internet is growing at
an astronomical rate!  Where can I find some statistics that would
verify this?

Winner's Answer
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<select>        Search FTP sites (Archie)/
<select>        Exact search of archive sites on the internet <?> "statistics"
<select>        nis.nsf.net:nsfnet/statistics//
<select>        history.packets.*
                        illustrative answer: traffic in millions of packets
                        has increased from 357 million packets in October
                        1988 to 22.498 billion packets in October 1992.


Other Answers
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Panda -- panda.uiowa.edu
4. Online Information Services...
2. Anonymous FTP - nic.merit.edu...
10. Merit Internet Information (a must for new Internet users)..
2. Anonymous FTP - nic.merit.edu...
13. nsfnet...
13. statistics..
statistic data on internet usage and growth is available via ftp at
NIC.MERIT.EDU. This site contains some of the following data:
 pnets    Traffic broken down by network, measured in packets, which
          traversed the specified NSFNET backbone during the one-month
          reporting period.
country  Traffic broken down by country, measured in both packets and
          bytes, which traversed the specified NSFNET backbone during
          the one-month reporting period.
history.netcount Growth as reflected in the number of domestic and
                 foreign networks having announcement to the NSFNET
                 infrastructures.
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The Domain Survey attempts to discover every host on the Internet by
 doing a complete search of the Domain Name System.  The latest results
 gathered during late October 1992 are listed.  For more information
 see RFC 1296; for detailed data see the pub/zone directory on
 ftp.nisc.sri.com.

N.1 Number of Internet Hosts

   The chart below shows the number of IP hosts on the Internet.  These
   are hosts with at least one IP address assigned.  Data was collected
   by ZONE except where noted.  The following two sections are graphs of
   the data in this chart.

        Date             Hosts

        08/81              213          Host table #152
        05/82              235          Host table #166
        08/83              562          Host table #300
        10/84            1,024          Host table #392
        10/85            1,961          Host table #485
        02/86            2,308          Host table #515
        11/86            5,089
        12/87           28,174
        07/88           33,000
        10/88           56,000
        01/89           80,000
        07/89          130,000
        10/89          159,000
        10/90          313,000
        01/91          376,000
        07/91          535,000
        10/91          617,000
        01/92          727,000

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 80|                                                *
 60|                                               .
 40|                                              *
 20|                                       ..*...*
  0|...*....*......*......*.....*.*....*...
    -------------------------------------------------------------------
    8     8     8     8     8     8     8     8     8     9     9     9
    1     2     3     4     5     6     7     8     9     0     1     2
                                   Date
    "*"  = data point,  "." = estimate
This graph is a linear plot of the number of Internet hosts.

[Rick: Astounding information on the growth of hosts. ]

Extra Credit Question
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<select>        The University of California - Santa Barbara/
<select>        UCSB Electronic Address Server <CSO>
<insert>        1
<insert>        gates
                        answer:  choose from among
                                lb05gate@ucsbuxa.bitnet
                                lb05gate@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu
                                lb13goph@ucsbuxa.ucsb.bitnet
                                lb13goph@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu

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Well, at least I can find your email address; two sigs at the
bottom of the article helps! And since I read it on News, it's
Internet info, right?

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It better be lb05gate%ucsbuxa@hub.ucsb.EDU, or he won't get this!

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Whois also produces......
whois Gates
Gates, Rick (RG120)             lb05gate@UCSBUXA.UCSB.EDU       (805) 893-7225


Mystery Question
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Here is another idea which exploits the real reason people
would find on-line info easier to use than library data - you
can process data without retyping it.

I want to create a spreadsheet which adjusts my monthly
investment account balances for inflation as measured by the
Consumer Price Index. Where can I get the monthly CPI values
for the last decade on-line?

I know CENDATA carries this (e.g. on Compu$erve), but I'm not
sure where it is on the internet.  Must be there - I'll search
for it if you don't know where....

   (Question contributed by Neal McBurnett, AT&T Bell Labs, Denver)


Okay, I'm sure that there are several ways to access CompuServe Information
Service over the Internet, however, the best way that I've found to access
CIS is by telnet'ing to hermes.mit.edu, which is a SprintNet gateway.  From
there you can connect to CompuServe's computers in Dayton over an x.25 line
(this effectively runs at 9600bps, thus your account will be billed at that
rate, plus a small surcharge of around 6 cents/minute for use of SprintNet,
if memory serves).  Once you've connected to the CIS host, login and and
type "GO CENDATA" to get to Census Data Forum.

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FTP to info.umd.edu
has ecnomic data
see info/EconData/Data/USNational/Price/cpi.zip

[Rick: I haven't had the time to download this very large
file.  Here's the listing:

-rw-rw-r--  1 503      503       1713984 Jun 24 18:14 cpi.zip
]
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