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To: DMaA who wrote (12644)	2/10/1998 10:18:00 PM
From: Moonray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

Surprises among most-wired cities list San Francisco? Sure. But Atlanta and Minneapolis among the USA's most wired cities? So says Yahoo! Internet Life magazine. The March issue, on newsstands next week, will name the 100 top cities in cyberspace, considering Internet users per capita, the number of networked computers, registered addresses, Internet backbone traffic and how many times a city showed up on the big Internet directories. Some results are surprising. After San Francisco - so wired that a party doesn't count if you don't get someone's e-mail address - the second most wired city in America is Atlanta. Credit the Olympics. The hub of commerce for the South, Atlanta has four to seven times more fiber optic lines than New York, says Nick Gold, press secretary to Mayor Bill Campbell. "There was an incredible amount of infrastructure put into place for the Olympic Games, which we're benefiting from," Gold says. A host of major tech businesses, including IBM, MCI, Apple, Lucent Technologies, BellSouth and Peachtree Software, also use Atlanta as a base of operations, plus nine colleges and universities, including Georgia Tech. Among other less-than-obvious choices: o Austin, Texas, at fourth thanks to its strong software industry, wired college set and enough digital culture to make someone from Silicon Valley feel right at home. o Minneapolis is sixth, related less to long winters than to a strong city infrastructure that makes free Net access available at libraries, as well as a highly educated population, says Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton. She notes that the ratio of kids to computers at the secondary school level is 8 to 1. Oddly, it isn't until eighth place that we come to New York. By brute number of Internet users (3.5 million), it would win any contest. But the lightly wired outer boroughs knock it out of the top five. o~~~ O