prime-time weekly television magazine programme on the subject. On the day I am writing this editorial, a report in a normally reliable newspaper claims there are already more than 35 million users with the figure growing at the rate of 20 per cent per month (Rosen, 1994). This means that there is likely to be 75 million users by the time the editorial is published, and well over 250 million within a year.’ What then is the Internet and

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黄金时段每周电视杂志节目关于这个主题。在我写这篇社论的那天，一份通常可靠的报纸上的报道称，已经有超过 3500 万用户，而且这个数字以每月 20% 的速度增长（Rosen，1994 年）。这意味着在社论发表时可能有 7500 万用户，一年之内将超过 2.5 亿。那么什么是互联网和