Generalities.

• A W3O (World-Wide-Web Organisation) proposed via centres in Europe (at CERN) in the USA (at MIT) and perhaps elsewhere.
• Industrial Consortium to fund development and standards.
• Web Internet traffic has now overtaken Gopher traffic.
• Installation of 1.5 Mbit "T1" connections to the Internet may result in ISDN being rapidly by-passed.
  • Move into home information and entertainment?
  • Will London Cable operators offer Internet Service?
  • Wireless LANS and Motorola Iridium?
• The "real" cost of network use is about 1$/Mbyte in USA and in Europe from 2-10$/Mbyte.
• Harvard have Installed up to 12,000 Campus Fibre Jack-points.
• Only 8.6% of Japanese computers are connected to a network.