Mecklermedia's fall Internet World '95 posts record attendance; Fall '96 estimated at 300% larger.

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 2, 1995--With over 32,000 attendees visiting 230 exhibitors at a packed Boston World Trade Center, Fall Internet World '95 completed its three-day run as the world's largest conference and exhibition devoted to the Internet and World-Wide Web.

According to Alan M. Meckler, chairman and chief executive officer of Mecklermedia Corporation, the Fall Internet World '95 attendance was nearly triple the number of people at last year's fall show in Washington D.C.

Meckler noted that the upcoming Spring Internet World '96 in San Jose will be significantly larger in attendance and exhibition space, and that the Fall Internet World '96 show in Boston will almost triple in size, occupying both the Hynes Convention Center and World Trade Center.

"Contracted sales of exhibition space for the Fall Internet World '96 show have surpassed $3 million at the close of this week's show, and we still have 12 months of sales remaining," said Mr. Meckler. "This compares with $1,500,000 in booth unit sales for the completed 1995 fall show."

In addition to a wealth of new product and service announcements from exhibitors, the Boston show marketd the debut of the first annual Internet Bowl, a unique game show hosted by Andrew Kantor, senior editor of Internet World magazine. Playing to an enthusiastic standing room only audience, Kantor posed rapid-fire net-related questions to teams representing Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows '95, and IBM OS/2 ... with the answers to be found by navigating the Net.

At the end of the hotly contested Internet Bowl, the OS/2 team topped its competitors by an almost 2-to-1 margin. Both Macintosh and Windows '95 vowed to do better next year.

In addition to fall and spring shows in the USA, Mecklermedia's Internet World Conferences and Exhibitions are held in San Jose, Boston, Toronto, Sydney, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Seoul, Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paolo, and Mexico City.

Mecklermedia is the largest Internet media company in the world and the leading provider of Internet information through its publications Internet World, Web Week, and Web Developer. Internet World magazine has a circulation of over 260,000 and has affiliate versions in Spanish, Japanese and Portuguese.

Web Developer/WebXpo events are held each summer and winter in Dallas and Chicago. The Internet World Home Expo will debut in New York in February 1996. Mecklermedia's iWORLD, the leading Web site for Internet information, contains online content of all Mecklermedia publications and provides detailed information about all Mecklermedia trade shows. iWORLD can be found at http://www.iworld.com.

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