对成百万的PC拥有者来说,他们真正感兴趣的网络只有一个,这便是Internet。通过Internet互连的计算机正急剧增多,至1995年底估计有2500万人可访问Internet,这个数字是1990年的10倍。Internet用户激增的主要推动力量并不在于教育和人们相互沟通的需要,如今Internet正超负荷地被用于商业领域。据Boston的Yankee市场调查机构估计, For millions of PC owners, there is only one network that they really are interested in, and that’s the Internet. The number of computers interconnected via the Internet is dramatically increasing, with 25 million people estimated to have Internet access by the end of 1995, a figure 10 times that of 1990. The main driving force behind the proliferation of Internet users is not the need for education and people to communicate with each other, but the Internet is now overloaded for commercial use. According to Boston’s Yankee market research firm estimates,