There were 19.7 million using such services at work, and 14.7 million using such services, including the Internet, from household computers. While opinions vary, a common convention is to assume that ten people use each host computer on the Internet. On this basis, perhaps 12.3 million Americans had some form of Internet access in October 1993. Another way of saying this would be that 41.13 percent of the individuals using networked information services were perhaps using the Internet in some manner, such for as electronic mail. There is no effective way to know this number with precision, and it may be much higher.
Many hosts have far more than ten users.
Examples include commercial services such as America Online, which has over one million individual accounts, or community networks such as the Cleveland Free-Net with over 20,000 registered users or CapAccess in Washington, DC with over 10,000. Many corporate local or wide area networks have hundreds if not thousands of users connected to host computers linked to the Internet, and the same is true of many schools. Assuming ten users per host, this suggests there were 26.7 million Internet users in the United States in October 1994. This is particularly interesting for the 14.7 million who used networked information services from home computers. By October 1995 this figure would grow to 47.6 million residential users of networked information services-including the Internet, which is sure to become an increasingly larger component of individual use.