Above the abridged, international version of the history of the internet video we watched last week. I really enjoy the extra details about England and France because I had a sneaking suspicion it wasn't just us Americans who contributed to the internet's inception. The relative infancy of the internet and the it's more modern component the World Wide Web (WWW) surprised me.
I'm older than the web. If you were born before 1990, so are you. It's just mind-boggling to look back on how fast the technological changes happened once good old Tim Berners-Lee came up with HTML and coined the WWW we all use now. It's been only 20 years!
The number of sites has also grown exponentially.
According to a 2008 Google study, there are more than one trillion unique URLs on the internet today. We have come a long way since the first baby steps of the WWW. Back in January of 1996 there were 100,000 websites, and looking back even further to mid-1993 there were only a total of 130 websites. Not much need for Google in those days…
Here's a graphic outlining the growth of websites from 1990 to 2008. I'm sure at this point the graph line is pointing straight up due to the massive growth in more recent years.
Wonder about that one, single website back in December of 1990? That was info.cern.ch, the first-ever website and web server, created by Berners-Lee.
Historical perspective achieved. I can't believe I'm older than the web! From here it's just a hop, skip and a jump away from a, "I remember when" comment I can deliver to the next generation. Boy I feel old.
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