At least 300 million people will be using the Internet by the year 2000. Also, assuming IPv6 gets going at all, and that the Internet continues to double in size every year, it might be 1999 before we’ll see 50 percent penetration of IPv6.
Predictor: Cerf, Vinton G.
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article in Network Computing magazine, a number of Internet pioneers and administrators were asked for their predictions for the year 2000. Vinton Cerf comments: ”At least 300 million people will be using the Internet by the year 2000. Also, assuming IPv6 gets going at all, and that the Internet continues to double in size every year, it might be 1999 before we’ll see 50 percent penetration of IPv6.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Protocols
Name of publication: Network Computing
Title, headline, chapter name: Millennium Prophesies
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=1b2401a7f3b066acd9e0ae52a25c0e21&_docnum=4&wchp=dGLbVtb-lSlAl&_md5=1a8616c1ba5ed2fe70f13731c109363c
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Edwards, Elizabeth