162 Million Web Sites Online
April 15, 2008 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Computers
The Web has grown to 162 million sites. You wouldn’t have known it would get this big back in 1990, when there was just one Web site. Yahoo didn’t know it would get this big back in 1995, when they tried to manually categorize all Web sites into a single hierarchy.
Despite the explosion of Web technologies, the first Web site, created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee himself, still looks incredibly unassuming.
As Web services become more important than Web sites, the Web will only become even harder to quantify.
You know, when I see that kind of graph with that result over span of years, I recall “An Inconvenient Truth”. Not to be sarcastic but… # of websites = contributing to global warming? Or Internet junk :p
Actually more Web sites means less paper, which means more trees, which means less global warming. ;)
Ah that’s true. I guess that’s the first graph with a positive effect on global warming. :D