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`Total number of Websites
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`1,043,106,317
`Websites online right now
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`Number of Websites by year
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`Curious Facts
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`Popular Websites
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`There are over 1 billion websites on the world wide web today. This milestone was first
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`reached in September of 2014, as confirmed by NetCraft in its October 2014 Web Server
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`Survey and first estimated and announced by Internet Live Stats (see the tweet
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`(https://twitter.com/timberners_lee/status/511988109211627520) from the inventor of
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`the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee). The number had subsequently declined,
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`reverting back to a level below 1 billion (due to the monthly fluctuations in the count of
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`inactive websites) before reaching again and stabilizing above the 1 billion mark
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`starting in March of 2016. From 1 website in 1991 to 1 billion in 2014, the chart and table
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`below show the total number of websites by year throughout history:
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`By "Website" we mean unique hostname (a name which can be resolved, using a
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`name server, into an IP Address).
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`It must be noted that around 75% of websites today are not active, but parked domains
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`[1]
`or similar.
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`Year
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`Websites Change
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`Internet Users
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`Users
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`Website
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`2015 863,105,652 -11% 3,185,996,155* 3.7
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`2014 968,882,453 44%
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`2,925,249,355
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`3.0
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`Year
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`Websites Change
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`Internet Users
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`Users
`per
`Website
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`2013 672,985,183 -3%
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`2,756,198,420
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`2012 697,089,489 101% 2,518,453,530
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`2011 346,004,403 67%
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`2,282,955,130
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`2010 206,956,723 -13% 2,045,865,660
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`2009 238,027,855 38%
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`1,766,206,240
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`2008 172,338,726 41%
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`1,571,601,630
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`4.1
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`3.6
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`6.6
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`9.9
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`7.4
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`9.1
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`(https://web.archive.org/web/20100202235045/http://pinterest.com/)
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`Dropbox
`(https://web.archive.org/web/20080324155155/http://www.getdropbox.com/)
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`2007 121,892,559 43%
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`1,373,327,790
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`11.3
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`Tumblr (https://web.archive.org/web/20070105095540/http://tumblr.com/)
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`2006
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`85,507,314 32%
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`1,160,335,280
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`13.6
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`Twttr (/img/twttr.png)
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`2005
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`64,780,617 26%
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`1,027,580,990
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`16
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`2004
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`51,611,646 26%
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`910,060,180
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`18
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`2003
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`40,912,332 6%
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`778,555,680
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`19
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`2002
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`38,760,373 32%
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`662,663,600
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`2001
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`29,254,370 71%
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`500,609,240
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`2000
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`17,087,182 438% 413,425,190
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`1999
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`3,177,453 32%
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`280,866,670
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`1998
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`2,410,067 116% 188,023,930
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`1997
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`1,117,255 334% 120,758,310
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`1996
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`257,601 996% 77,433,860
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`17
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`17
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`24
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`88
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`78
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`108
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`301
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`YouTube
`(https://web.archive.org/web/20050428014715/http://www.youtube.com/)
`Reddit (https://web.archive.org/web/20050725010627/http://reddit.com/)
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`Thefacebook (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thefacebook.png)
`(https://web.archive.org/web/20040226214842/http://www.flickr.com/)
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`WordPress
`(https://web.archive.org/web/20030618021947/http://wordpress.org/)
`LinkedIn (http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris/483902502/)
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`Wikipedia
`(https://web.archive.org/web/20010727112808/http://www.wikipedia.org/)
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`Baidu
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`PayPal (https://web.archive.org/web/19991013140707/http://paypal.com/)
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`Google (https://web.archive.org/web/19981111184551/http://google.com/)
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`Yandex (/img/yandex-23-september
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`Year
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`Websites Change
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`Internet Users
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`Users
`per
`Website
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`1995
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`23,500 758% 44,838,900
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`1,908
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`Altavista
`(http://web.archive.org/web/19961022174555/http://altavista.digital.com/)
`Amazon (/img/amazon-1995.jpg), AuctionWeb
`-1995.gif)
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`1994
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`2,738 2006% 25,454,590
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`9,297
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`Yahoo
`(http://web.archive.org/web/19961220154510/http://www.yahoo.com/)
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`1993
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`1992
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`Aug.
`1991
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`130 1200% 14,161,570
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`108,935
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`10 900%
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`1
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`World Wide Web Project
`(http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html)
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`Source: NetCraft and Internet Live Stats (elaboration of data by Matthew Gray of MIT and
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`Periodic drops in the total count can depend on various factors, including an
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`improvement in NetCraft's handling of wildcard hostnames. For example, in August
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`2012, over 40 million hostnames on only 242 IP addresses were removed from the
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`Survey.
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`Curious facts
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`• The first-ever website (info.cern.ch)
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`(http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html) was published on August 6,
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`[2]
`1991 by British physicist Tim Berners-Lee while at CERN, in Switzerland. On April
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`30, 1993 CERN made World Wide Web ("W3" for short) technology available on a
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`royalty-free basis to the public domain, allowing the Web to flourish.
`[3]
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`• The World Wide Web was invented in March of 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee (see the
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`original proposal (http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html)). He also
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`introduced the first web server, the first browser and editor (the
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`“WorldWideWeb.app
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`(http://www.w3.org/History/1994/WWW/Journals/CACM/screensnap2_24c.gif)”),
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`the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and, in October 1990, the first version of
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`the "HyperText Markup Language" (HTML).
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`• In 2013 alone, the web has grown by more than one third: from about 630 million
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`websites at the start of the year to over 850 million by December 2013 (of which
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`180 million were active).
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`• Over 50% of websites today are hosted on either Apache or nginx, both open
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`[5]
`source web servers. As of June 2014, Microsoft has got very close to Apache in
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`terms of market share (only a 0.15% difference separates the two). If the trend
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`continues, Microsoft could soon become the leading web server developer for the
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`first time in history.
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`Popular Websites (launch year & how they looked)
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`back to top ↑
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`(https://web.archive.org/web/20100202235045/http://pinterest.com/)
`Pinterest (2010)
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`(https://web.archive.org/web/20080324155155/http://www.getdropbox.com/)
`Dropbox (2008)
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`(https://web.archive.org/web/20070105095540/http://tumblr.com/)
`Tumblr (2007)
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` (/img/twttr.png)
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`Twttr (2006)
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`(https://web.archive.org/web/20050428014715/http://www.youtube.com/)
`YouTube (2005)
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`(https://web.archive.org/web/20050725010627/http://reddit.com/)
`Reddit (2005)
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` (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thefacebook.png)
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`Thefacebook (2004)
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`(https://web.archive.org/web/20040226214842/http://www.flickr.com/)
`Flickr (2004)
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` (http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris/483902502/)
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`Linkedin (2003)
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`(https://web.archive.org/web/19991013140707/http://paypal.com/)
`PayPal (1999)
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`(https://web.archive.org/web/19981111184551/http://google.com/)
`Google (1998)
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` (/img/yandex-23-september-1997.jpg)
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`Yandex (1997)
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` (/img/auctionweb-(ebay)-1995.gif)
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`AuctionWeb (Ebay, 1995)
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` (http://www.internetlivestats.com/img/amazon-
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`1995.jpg)
`Amazon (1995)
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`(http://web.archive.org/web/19961022174555/http://altavista.digital.com/)
`Altavista (1995)
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`(http://web.archive.org/web/19961220154510/http://www.yahoo.com/)
`Yahoo (1994)
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` (http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html)
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`WWW Project (1991)
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`Sources
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`back to top ↑
`The current estimated total number of Websites is delivered by Worldometers'
`algorithm (http://www.worldometers.info/licensing-how.php), which processes data
`elaborated through statistical analysis after being collected from the following sources:
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`• NetCraft Web Server Survey (http://news.netcraft.com/archives/category/web-server-
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`survey/) - [and its data (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?
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`key=0AsDrQsdrVZikdF9zVVlZOC1ZRTVwVU9BY2pPMXplLVE&gid=0) compiled by Pingdom].
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`Netcraft Ltd.
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`• "Measuring the Growth of the Web." (http://www.mit.edu/people/mkgray/growth/) Matthew
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`Gray, MIT.
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`• Robert H Zakon. "Hobbes' Internet Timeline - the definitive ARPAnet & Internet
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`history." (http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/) Zakon.org.
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`• "How we got from 1 to 162 million websites on the
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`internet." (http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/04/04/how-we-got-from-1-to-162-million-
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`websites-on-the-internet/) Pingdom Tech blog. April 4, 2008.
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`References
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`back to top ↑
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`1. "How many active sites are there?" (http://www.netcraft.com/active-sites/) Netcraft Ltd
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`2. Noyes, Dan "First URL active once more." (http://first-website.web.cern.ch/blog/first-url-active-
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`once-more) CERN. April 29, 2013.
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`3. CERN. "Twenty years of a free, open web." (http://info.cern.ch/) CERN. April 30, 2013.
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`4. Berners-Lee, Tim, with Fischetti, Mark. "Weaving the Web" (http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-
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`Lee/Weaving/Overview.html) Harper. San Francisco, 1999.
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`5. Web Server Survey (http://news.netcraft.com/archives/category/web-server-survey/). Netcraft Ltd
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`— Tim Berners-Lee (@timberners_lee) September 16, 2014
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