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Percentage of online users who watch TV and PC screens simultaneously: 40 Number of miles of undersea telephone cables: 186,000…

Percentage of online users who watch TV and PC screens simultaneously: 40 Number of miles of undersea telephone cables: 186,000 In 1997, annual percentage growth rate of data traffic on undersea telephone cables: 90 Percentage of Web users who consider Web access "indispensable": 82 No. of transistors on the Pentium II processor: 7.5 million Cost of the 333 MHz Pentium II processor (when bought in multiples of 1,000 units): $722

Sources: 1 Internet Index/Win Treese ; 2 Intel

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