If you're in any kind of business, then you're also in the business of selling. You don't want to miss out on an opportunity that could make you money. But you don't have money to throw away either. So you stand to benefit from cutting through the mythology and getting at the facts. That's just one of many wild claims I've read about how many people you can reach on the Net.
Nobody really knows how many users there are because there's no central authority over the Internet.
No one owns it. It's a massive interconnection of computer networks, communication lines, and switching equipment. This refers to users who could access the Internet's interactive services, such as the World-Wide Web. However, the Internet has been growing at 100 percent a year since 1988, so the numbers change fast. By October of 1995, the Consumer Internet described by the survey should have reached about 27 million.