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Happy 16th Birthday WWW

happy birthday wwwThe World Wide Web turned 16 on Monday! And it looks like we missed its birthday. Nonetheless, we still wish it a happy birthday, and thanks for all of the good times. According to the W3.org site, this URL held the fist web page nxoc01.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html, which is no longer in existence. Dont confuse this with that 15th birthday back in back in August. That one was for Tim Berners-Lee's posting on a newsgroup, and the development of a GUI browser and editor. This birthday celebrates the actual name Word Wide Web, changed from the Information Mesh, Mine of Information, and Information Mine.

Too bad, but at least we have archive.org taking snapshots of the web now for generations to look back on. What are your fondest memories of the web so far? Are you happy with its growth and direction? Want to send it a b-day message, drop us a comment.

Now, does the WWW have any other birthdays we don't know about?

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100 million web sites - Netcraft confirms it

InternetsInternet monitoring company has announced that late last month the web passed a significant milestone: 100 million web sites.

But wait... 100 million? So few? Surely there can't be only 100 million web sites out there! Ah, but let's take a closer look at what Netcraft considers a web site: "There are now 100 million Web sites with domain names and content on them," says Netcraft's Rich Miller. Ah, there's the rub: According to Netcraft, it's only a web site if it has its own domain name and has content on it. The latter part I think we can all agree with--this excludes, presumably, blank pages, registrar parking pages, Google ad farms, and the like. But what about the domain name thing? There are tens of millions of Blogspot blogs out there, for example, but since they're all on .blogspot.com, Netcraft is counting them all as one. The same goes for every other blog host, and every web site living at Geocities or a similar host. 100 million web sites my butt.

Still, it's an interesting milestone. When Netcraft started counting back in 1995 there were only 18,000 web sites in existence. A hundred million domain-names-with-content in the 17 years since the World Wide Web's birth? If that's not something to marvel at, I don't know what is.

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