The Internet Is It's Own Revolution by Tony Rutkowski Internetworking is one of the most revolutionary technologies of the 20th century; Internetworking is perhaps THE most revolutionary human communications medium that has yet emerged. Why is this so? What is it so remarkable about internetworking? Is this exaggerated? I think not. And, the answer is not just that it's an important technology and major new business sector, but rather it's a critical enabling infrastructure for institutions, for professions, for people, for countries, for creative genius itself. In many respects, it is the enabling side of this phenomenon that is more important than the technology. Internetworking is a destroyer of time and of space. It removes institutional walls. It is a changer of paradigms. It is for these reasons that the Internet is experiencing growth at ever more phenomenal rates. In recent weeks, a new network has been connecting on the average every ten minutes! The following graphs portray these current metrics. Worth noting is the continuing rapid globalization of the connectivity. Also included are the latest statistics on the Internet's emerging favorite information "browsing" tools - Gopher and World Wide Web. Gopher's current annual growth rate of service traffic (which does not include any ancillary files moved) now stands at 997% and WWW at a stunning 341,634% - which must set some record as the world's most rapidly growing communication medium.