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The Internet Now has Over 100 Million Web Sites

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the and-most-of-it-is-porn dept.

1sockchuck writes "There are now more than 100 million web sites on the Internet, according to Netcraft, whose monthly web server survey has reached 101.4 million sites. From the article: 'The 100 million site milestone caps an extraordinary year in which the Internet has already added 27.4 million sites, easily topping the previous full-year growth record of 17 million from 2005. The Internet has doubled in size since May 2004, when the survey hit 50 million.'" This is a far cry from the August 1995 results that just cleared 18,000.

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  1. Ridiculous! by KidHash · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nobody could need more than 640 websites...

    1. Re:Ridiculous! by gwyrdd+benyw · · Score: 3, Funny

      I still remember the good old days when the web was first born, and I had the (realistic!) goal of visiting every single web page in existence...

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    2. Re:Ridiculous! by eln · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Ah yes, back when a person's favorite links were his "Hot List," and he put them online because his browser didn't have a bookmark function (and oh yeah, so other people could see them too I guess), and when a "blog" was known as a "personal home page." Back when I could teach a whole class everything there was to know about HTML in one day. Back when 99% of the sites on the Internet were "under construction."

      My first website (other than the ubiquitous "rants" page) was basically a collection of Monty Python scripts I ripped off of gopher sites and HTML-ized. Back then, I actually got mentioned on one of those "cool site of the day" pages. These days I'd probably just get sued.

    3. Re:Ridiculous! by HardcoreWizard · · Score: 2, Funny

      The world needs no more than three jokes, repeated over and over again in eternity!

  2. Mmm, the memories. by Vegard · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I remember when the "google equivalent" was a web page with all the worlds web servers was listed. It rapidly got divided into one page per country....

    1. Re:Mmm, the memories. by SETIGuy · · Score: 2, Interesting
      Here's a subset of my .mosaic-hotlist-default which still sits in my home directory. Frankly, I'm amazed at how many have evolved into something else.

      • http://sunsite.unc.edu/ianc/ Tue Feb 15 12:46:13 1994 Internet Underground Music Archive
      • http://www.cs.colorado.edu/homes/mcbryan/public_ html/bb/summary.html Tue Feb 15 16:20:03 1994 The Mother-of-all BBS
      • http://adswww.colorado.edu/adswww/adshomepg.html Fri Feb 18 13:17:54 1994 Astrophysics Data System Home Page
      • http://nearnet.gnn.com/gnn/gnn.html Tue Apr 19 11:15:27 1994 GNN Home Page
      • http://www.mojones.com/motherjones.html Tue Apr 19 12:22:19 1994 Mother Jones
      • http://wwww.cs.colorado.edu/~mcbryan/WWWW.html Tue Nov 15 12:26:03 1994 The World Wide Web Worm
      • http://www.ai.mit.edu/stocks.html Thu Dec 29 10:19:53 1994 Experimental Stock Market Data
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  3. Ridiculous by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The internet did not just reach 100 million sites - Netcraft's crawl reached 100 million sites.
    The internet didn't double in size since 2004 - Netcraft's crawl doubled in size since 2004.

  4. actual sites? by countach · · Score: 2, Insightful

    50 million more sites or 50 million more domain name squatters?

  5. Web sites are not 'The Internet' by ScentCone · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The Internet has doubled in size since May 2004, when the survey hit 50 million

    How can an article citing Netcraft stats, submitted by a nerd, and approved by a nerd, get this basic concept wrong? The phone I used today was part of the internet. This week, I added half a dozen web sites to an existing box, on an existing single IP address. "The Web" and "The Internet" aren't the same thing. At all.

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  6. Well, I won't believe it until... by Overzeetop · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...Netcraft confirms it.

    Oh. Whoops.

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  7. How are they counting. by cwinfough · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Are they counting unique sites ie "http://www.yourname.com" and "http://www.joe.yourname.com" or are they just counting primary domain names? :>

  8. The Internet Now has Over 100 Million Web Sites... by MSTCrow5429 · · Score: 3, Informative

    ..and 99.99 million of them are crap.

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