日内瓦国际电信联盟的报告中指出,1997年互联网络使用者达7000万人,预计到2000年其用户将达到1.1亿;使用者将超过3亿人。网络的发展,受诸多因素的影响。如电信线路的发展、个人电脑的普及程度、网络线路的租赁和使用者的文化程度、语言等。因此,网络用户在全球各地分布极不平衡 According to the report of the Geneva International Telecommunication Union, 70 million Internet users were used in 1997 and it is estimated that its users will reach 110 million by the year 2000; the number of users will exceed 300 million. The development of the Internet is affected by many factors. Such as the development of telecommunication lines, the popularity of personal computers, the leasing of network lines and the user’s educational level, languages, etc. As a result, Internet users are highly unevenly distributed throughout the world