Hi woodstork,
Thank you for your question.
Boutell.com
http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/history/inventedweb.html
WWW FAQs: Who invented the World Wide Web?
"the World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989, with the
first working system deployed in 1990, while he was working at CERN
(the European Organization for Nuclear Research). He went on to found
the World Wide Web Consortium, which seeks to standardize and improve
World Wide Web-related things such as the HTML markup language in
which web pages are written.
Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first web browser and the first web server.
Tim Berners-Lee invented both the HTML markup language and the HTTP
protocol used to request and transmit web pages between web servers
and web browsers, in addition to coining the phrase "World Wide Web."
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World Wide Web From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Origins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web#Origins
?The World Wide Web ("WWW", "W3", or simply "Web") is an information
space in which the items of interest, referred to as resources, are
identified by global identifiers called Uniform Resource Identifiers
(URIs). The term is often mistakenly used as a synonym for the
Internet, but the Web is actually a service that operates over the
Internet.?
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"The Web can be traced back to a project at the European Organization
for Nuclear Research (CERN) in 1989 when Tim Berners-Lee and Robert
Cailliau built ENQUIRE..."
(read article)
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Boutell.com - WWW FAQs: What was the first web site?
http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/history/firstsite.html
"the very first web site was nxoc01.cern.ch, and the very first web
page was http://nxoc01.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html. That
site shut down a long time ago. For more information, and a later copy
of those early pages, see the personal FAQ of Tim Berners-Lee, who
invented the web.
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Boutell.com - WWW FAQs: How many web sites are there?
http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/misc/sizeofweb.html
?how many web sites exist? There is no exact answer to this question.
For one thing, a good definition of a web site is hard to pin down; a
reasonable definition might be "a fully qualified domain name, such as
www.example.com, which delivers unique or mostly unique content." This
rules out, for instance, alternate names for the same site that always
fetch exactly the same pages.
As of this writing, Google states that they are indexing 4,285,199,774
distinct web pages. But not every page is indexed by the Google search
engine, and web sites are made up of multiple pages.
Large web sites can have many thousands of pages. Dynamically
generated sites can have a seemingly infinite number -- but Google is
smart enough to stop short of analyzing the same site forever. Yet
most sites just have a few pages introducing a business or a person,
or simply a placeholder home page. My personal experience, coupled
with rumors of a survey finding that 35 million distinct top level
domains existed in December, 2003, leads me to suggest that an average
site has roughly 100 unique pages. Dividing Google's figure of 4.28
billion by 100 gives us roughly 43 million sites. But this figure is
only a very crude estimate. The web is growing all the time, no one is
in charge, and by the time you've counted a tiny fraction of it, many
sites have come and gone.?
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September 2005 Web Server Survey Web Server Survey
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html
?In the September 2005 survey we received responses from 71,723,098
sites. The increase of 1.33 million sites from August continued the
strong growth for the Internet this year, but marked a slowing from
the torrid pace over the summer, with monthly gains about half of
those seen in July and August.
Apache gained 703K sites and Microsoft servers added 217K sites, but
share for both continued in a narrow range that has held steady for
more than a year. The open source Apache web server is now poised to
cross 50 million sites, probably within the next month.?
(see graph)
Web Server Survey Turns 10, Finds 70 Million Sites
?Web Server Survey Turns 10, Finds 70 Million Sites Web Server Survey
The Web Server Survey marks its 10th anniversary this month with a
milestone, as we now find more than 70 million web sites on the
Internet. The August 2005 survey received responses from 70,392,567
sites, an increase of 2.8 million hostnames. This gain, together with
the last month's increase of 2.7 million sites, marks the biggest
two-month increase in the history of our survey. It comes just five
months after the survey crossed the 60 million mark in March of this
year, another sign that Internet growth is eclipsing even the torrid
pace of the dot-com boom.?
(see graph)
July 2005 Web Server Survey
?In the July 2005 survey we received responses from 67,571,581 sites.
The gain of 2.76 million hostnames from June is the second-largest
monthly increase in the history of our survey, as 2005 continues to
shape up as a historic year for Internet growth. The only larger gain
was a 3.3 million hostname increase in March 2003, which ended months
of stagnation and kicked off 30 consecutive months of positive growth
for the Web.
Factors in the dramatic growth include:
- Increasing use of the Internet by small businesses as web sites
and online storefronts become more affordable.
- The explosive growth of weblogs, a growing number of which are
purchasing domains for branding purposes.
- Speculation in the market for domain names, buoyed by rising
resale prices and the ability to generate revenue via pay-per-click
advertising on parked domains.
- Strong sales of online advertising, especially keyword-based
contextual ads that support business models for both domain parking
and commercial weblogs.
The Internet has added 10.7 million hostnames in the first seven
months of the year. Barring a dramatic slowdown, 2005 should easily
exceed the record growth of 16 million hostnames in 2000.?
(see graph)
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