Some figures on Internet growth from 1981 to 1993. This is growth in the Internet before WWW.
Date—-Hosts
08/81—213
10/85—1,961
10/89—159,000
10/93—-2,056,000
data originally hosted at <NIC.MERIT.EDU> /nsfnet/statistics/history.hosts 3 February 1994 (no longer online)
Dr Johnny Ryan FRHistS 