Hello stevegt,
If you had only asked this question in 1969 the answer would have been
easy. 1969 is the year that Bolt, Beranek, and Newman built 4
Internet Message Processors and installed them at The University of
California at Los Angeles, Stanford Research Institute, University of
California at Santa Barbara, and University of Utah. Stand ford
Research Institute was located in Stanford CA, about 10 miles from San
Jose CA. The answer then would have been 25% as there were only 4
nodes connected by the December of 1969.
Alas in the past 23 years the Internet has grown a bit. From those
original 4 nodes to approximately 147,344,723 hosts in January 2002.
Since IP addresses, which every host is required to have to access the
Internet, are doled out to various organization and companies and not
geographically assigned, there is no reliable method to determine the
number of hosts in a specific area.
Not that many people have not tried. Cooperative Association for
Internet Data Analysis, commonly referred to as CAIDA, has produced
what is known as a skitter graph that depicts the how well peered an
Autonomous System(AS) number is known. There is one AS number issued
for every organization that wishes to announce a network of IP
addresses to the Internet. On this skitter graph is an estimation of
the geographical location of each AS number, shown around the outside
of the graph. The raw data that is used to generate this graph is
available only to CAIDA members.
Search method used:
Since I already possessed knowledge about the history and workings of
the Internet I knew of an Internet survey organization that might have
the answer:
Netcraft
HTTP server surveys
http://www.netcraft.com
They do not breakdown their results by geographic location. I
searched Yahoo to locate other Internet surveys and found the Yahoo
category:
Yahoo! Directory > Internet > Statistics and Demographics
http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/Statistics_and_Demographics/
Looking over these results I recalled CAIDA and the skitter graph is
shown on the front page.
Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis
http://www.caida.org
I'm sorry I could not be of more help but CAIDA should have the answer
you are searching for.
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