The Internet Now has Over 100 Million Web Sites 181
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.
Ridiculous! (Score:5, Funny)
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More is better? (Score:2)
Every crap site added makes for more jusk that makes it harder to find anything worthwhile.
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You are way too generous. Even tho you are technically correct (heck, 1 is "less than 1 million"), that would be 1% of the total number of sites. My bet is way below that, more like
0.2%.
Now, if you mean that 1% of the total content is worth checking out, you might be closer to the mark. As usual, the 10-90 rule probably applies here to, with 10% of the websites containing 90% of the total content.
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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.
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Remember when there WERE no search engines and you'd have to get magazines with websites and reviews?
Remember the first time you downloaded mirc and was flabbergasted when you found out you could CHAT with someone? Before the time people said ASL? When they just said Hi, I'm so and so. Where are you?
Remember when you first saw a FREE version of UNIX that you could download, and which was a royal pain to actually install?
I do.
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You can read it on the web [indiana.edu] as well if you'd like. :-)
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how many porn sites? (Score:1)
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uh...42?
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One, two, three...
o/~ The Internet is for porn. The Internet is for porn. Grab your dick and double click for porn, porn, porn. o/~
In other news (Score:2)
Happy browsing everyone!
Netcraft confirms it (Score:2)
(Sorry, can't resist when it comes to Netcraft)
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We would have also accepted:
Well, for large sums of 2 it works.
What are you, the addition police.
The internet is for porn? (Score:1)
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Even more exciting.. (Score:2, Insightful)
God Bless the Internet.
Back in my day... (Score:2)
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The number is grossly inflated (Score:1, Insightful)
That would be an interesting statistic - how many web sites are there with unique content?
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I wonder what percentage of the 100 million are A) domain squatting link tubs, and/or B) dead blogs.
PHB to Dilbert (Score:1)
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Mmm, the memories. (Score:3, Interesting)
Heh - remember Yahoo back then? (Score:2)
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Then Yahoo came along and would list anybody equally, with all their categories and subcategories... they stopped taking just anybody, too.
A couple of friends of mine started a business selling websites (both the servers and building the sites). The co
Yahoo back then (well, 1996 anyway) (Score:1)
http://web.archive.org/web/19961017235908/http://
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I remember when lynx seemed like a major jump over previous gopher clients. And by using "pages" on my shell account, I had tabbed browsing!
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Yeah, but... (Score:2)
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"I jumped the shark, and then I didnt jump the shark".
Ridiculous (Score:3, Insightful)
The internet didn't double in size since 2004 - Netcraft's crawl doubled in size since 2004.
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But... but...! (Score:2)
(Ahh, the smell of burning karma)
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actual sites? (Score:3, Insightful)
But what *is* it mostly? (Score:2)
Funny ha ha, but a lot of folks would accept that statement at face value. At this point, measured in Netcraft's metric of "number of web sites", it would be interesting to know what most of the Internet actually *is*. Blogs? Personal sites? Phishnets?
If I were a betting man, I'd put my money on the hypothesis that the biggest category of "active web site" is the typosquatters [slashdot.org].
Server Too Busy (Score:1)
accuracy (Score:2)
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Web sites are not 'The Internet' (Score:5, Insightful)
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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Obviously the submitter and editor are either NOT nerds, or need to have their nerd quals revoked.
Internet capacity being reached? (Score:1)
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Don't worry, the net has survived everything that's been thrown at it, I doubt a few more doublings in website numbers is going to affect it...
Don't worry, (Score:1)
Congratulations... whoever you are... (Score:1)
MySpace (Score:1)
Death Eaters (Score:1)
Parked Domains? (Score:2)
Well, I won't believe it until... (Score:3, Funny)
Oh. Whoops.
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thats only 1 site for every 3 Americans (Score:1)
Domain name != website (Score:1)
wow (Score:1)
How are they counting. (Score:4, Interesting)
and only one that matters (Score:2)
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And how many are worth anything? (Score:2)
1995 (Score:1)
~psybre
Forget how many are porn sites (Score:2)
Good thing but... (Score:1)
My list:
1-Slashdot.org
2-Homestarrunner.com
3-Wikipedia.org
4-Google.com
5-Syllable.org
6-Flickr.com
And all open source related sites...
Some sites are popular but aren't worth the bits that they are transmitted on (eg. Digg.com).
Why google? (Score:2)
if netcraft wants to provide helpful info (Score:1)
Growth yes, but why? (Score:2)
This just reflects that more people are coming up with more ideas that include having their own little piece o' web. It's not important how many ideas people have or how many domains they run. It's how much time humanity is spending online that matters. It's how much good the internet is doing for us. Just wanted to point out the num
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You have questions.... and since I ain't Radio Shack I have more than blank stares for ya.
Blogs. Microsoft, Google and a lot more bit players are in a race to see how many domains they can host for free. And these days they don't call em personal homepages (that is so 20th Century and conjures up visions of crapy geocities pages) anymore, now we call them blogs. Plus Microsoft gets to boost their netc
How much more is more? (Score:1)
... Half of which are parked domains, "coming soon" or other typo-prone domains.
People getting it wrong. (Score:1)
Not since the USA... (Score:1)
Congratulations!
The Internet Now has Over 100 Million Web Sites... (Score:4, Informative)
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News at 11 (Score:1)
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*dodges vegetables on way out of town hall*
Please?
Of those 42 million 'websites'... (Score:2)
The quantity of CONTENT on the Internet has little to do with the number of domains hosted. In fact, the number of domains is pretty irrelevant, since it seems the bittorrent protocol hosts more actual content nowadays than the http protocol.
100 millions? (Score:2)
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Don't worry I have a degree in wastewater eng'g (Score:2)
Back to work shoveling sludge.....
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Aggregators, like Fark.com and the others mentioned help widdle down the 101,000,001 webpages out there, to something someone can hope to consume in a day. It will one day change television as we know it, and give the neighbour and their dog as big an online presence as eB
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That's the year MySpace reaches 1 billion users.
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