<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">the number reached 50,000 very quickly as I recall.<div><br></div><div>v</div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 10, 2009, at 5:49 PM, Brian Dear wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">Most of the histories of the first 10 years of ARPANET show graphs depicting how the number of host machine connections grew year by year. That's swell, but what I've always wondered was, how many PEOPLE used the ARPANET during those years? That is, how many people were connected to those host machines and at what year-by-year rate did the "ARPANET population" grow?<br><br>Anyone have any references to such data?<br><br>- Brian<br><br></span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="monospace">Brian Dear</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="monospace">PLATO History Project</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="monospace">La Jolla, California</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="monospace"><a href="mailto:brian@platohistory.org">brian@platohistory.org</a></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="monospace"><br></font></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>