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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 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.

  2. 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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  3. 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? :>