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ICQ

> 6 Digit UINs        • 13597_ • 26312_       • 26765_ • 28869_       • 53509_ • 54851_       • 63797_ • 66588_       • 74669_ • 76618_       • 77273_ • 79781_       Participation Rates  Have ICQ   253 57.8%  No ICQ 185 42.2%  Invalid 0 0%  Total 438 100%    Analysis & Notes 101 Sub-8 digits Highest: 7422927x

 

IM Programs

• AOL  166     • Yahoo 6 • MSN 4     • Odigo 1 • Excite 1     Participation Rates  Have IM 253 57.8%  Total 438 100%    Analysis & Notes After ICQ, AOLIM is the most popular instant messaging program.

 

Connections

• Modem (Dialup) 223     • Cable Whores 102 • T1 31     • DSL 23 • ADSL 19     • Ethernet 14 • T3 4     • ISDN 3 • DS3 1     • Fractional T1 1 • Bastard with OC-3 1     • Satellite 1 Participation Rates  Participated   423 96.6%  No Answer 15 3.4%  Invalid 0 0%  Total 438 100%    Analysis & Notes Cable whores :Þ Combined bandwidth is a theoretical and very approximate 1083Mbps for all the respondants (~135MB/sec)

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Browser Pref

• Internet Explorer 333 78.5% • Netscape Navigator 87 20.5% • Opera 2 <1% • Lynx 1 <1% • Gnome 1 <1% Participation Rates  Participated   424 96.8%  No Answer 13 3.0%  Invalid 1 <1%  Total 438 100%     Analysis & Notes Internet Explorer rules the day. The Netscape crowd is shrinking. Only a few years ago it was the dominant browser in the market.

 

OS

BeOS 1 Linux 4 MacOS 11 Sun Solaris 1 Win2K 23 Win95 45 Win98 235 WinNT 6  Dual Boot   Win95, Linux 4 MacOS, Linux 3 MacOS, WinNT 1 Win2K, BeOS 3 Win2K, FreeBSD 1 Win2K, Linux 3 Win2K, Win95 2 Win2K, Win98 16 Win98, BeOS 4 Win98, FreeBSD 1 Win98, Linux 36 Win98, WinNT 4  Triple Boot Win95, WinNT, Linux 1 Win98, WinNT, Linux 2 Win98, Win2K, Linux 7 Win98, WinNT, Win2K 2 Win98, Linux, FreeBSD 2 Win98, Linux, MacOS 1 Win98, Linux, BeOS 2  Quad Boot Win98, WinNT, Win2K, Linux 1 Win98, Win2K, Linux, BeOS 2 Participation Rates  Participated   351 80.1%  No Answer 64 14.6%  Invalid 23 5.2%  Total 438 100%     Analysis & Notes A very diverse range of o/s configurations. It is interesting to note that there are very few people that are totally independent of Microsoft operating systems. And to the people who have Win98, NT, and 2K on their system, I ask - why?

 

PL

C ? C++ 113 Basic 106 Java 85 Pascal 47 Perl 44 Assembler 24 Delphi 12 Cobol 6 Haskell 4 Python 4 Prolog 3 Logo 2 Lisp 2 Ada 2 TCL 2 Fortran 2 Participation Rates N/A     Analysis & Notes Quite a few programmers among us. C/C++ is the language of choice, followed by Basic and Java (which quite a lot of people know!)

Computer System Specs

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Page 1: Demographics - Religion, Gender, Marital Status
Page 2: Demographics - Age, Age Vs Marital Status, Birthdays
Page 3: Technology - ICQ, IM, Connections, Browser Preferences, O/S, Programming Languages
Page 4: Countries - Birth, Residence, Citizenship, Languages
Page 5: E/N - Roles, Motivation