Internet history

August 6 2006 was the 15 year anniversary of the first web page posting! 

Tim Berners-Lee had a vision of it being “a force for individual, regional and global understanding.”  Check out the growth in number of websites over the years:

1992: 50
1993: 150
1994: 3000
1995: 25,000
1996: 250,000
1997: 1.2 million
2001: 30 million
2002: 37 million
2003: 47 million
2004: 54 million
2005: 73 million
2006: 93 million

(Sources: Richard T. Griffiths, Leiden University; Netcraft Ltd.)

 

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