Posted on 09/18/2014 3:10:35 AM PDT by Swordmaker
The number of websites has burst above one billion and is growing apace, according to figures updated in real time by online tracker Internet Live Stats.
Tim Berners-Lee, considered the father of the World Wide Web, touted the milestone on Twitter -- one of the most prominent websites in the mushrooming but sometimes murky Internet world.
It comes as the agency responsible for managing addresses on the Internet expands choices far beyond ".com" and ".net" to provide more online real estate for the booming ranks of websites.
The World Wide Web turned 25 in April this year.
It was born from an idea in a technical paper from Berners-Lee, then an obscure, young computer scientist at a European physics lab.
Berners-Lee was working at CERN lab in Switzerland when he outlined a way to easily access files on linked computers, paving the way for a global phenomenon that has touched the lives of billions of people.
Internet Live Stats can be found at www.internetlivestats.com.
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Non-Apple specific Ping. . . the Internet surpasses 1 BILLION WEBSITES! That’s one website for every seven or so people! Who says the Internet is crowded?
Assuming you could type a URL in five second and it took another five seconds to load the website, and spent ten seconds looking at the site, you could visit all one billion websites in a mere 500 years or so. . .
This also means that FreeRepublic is literally “One in a Billion!”
Of course we always new the value of this website!
In the dim and distant past, when I first got internet, [28k modem] there were about 250K websites.
In my vast naiveté, I figured I’d just connect and sort of start at “page one” and read the internet.
Boy, did that ever spin out of control in a hurry.
I remember when Google was brand new...and not evil.
I thought Al Gore was the father of the World Wide Web?
Grossly misleading. The number of DOMAINS that have been registered is above 1 billion. 75% of these don’t have an actual site.
Just because a bunch on Kenya n’s register every possible combination of letters and words they can think up so they can hopefully sell it later... that’s not news.
Not exactly. There are over 1B registered domains. However, not every domain is hosting a website. I personally own 5 domain names, and not a single one of them hosts anything that could be even remotely construed as a website.
This article lacks technical acumen. Domain registrations != websites.
Most are spam sites... Do any search and too many are just pages with more links.
I found your parked site
http://www.Swordmaker.com
Yeah, they tried to sell it to me . . . not interested. $10,000. Seriously?
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