donpps
msg:3142617 | 7:26 pm on Nov 1, 2006 (gmt 0) |
darn .... so many webs so little time congrats to us?
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Fiver
msg:3142624 | 7:27 pm on Nov 1, 2006 (gmt 0) |
was anyone here among those initial 18000? all I had in 95 was a tilde account at my university.... which I wish I still had ;)
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ecommerceprofit
msg:3142640 | 7:39 pm on Nov 1, 2006 (gmt 0) |
Yep - I had a dot com domain back in 1995 and making cash on what I sold :-)
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koan
msg:3142662 | 8:05 pm on Nov 1, 2006 (gmt 0) |
In 1995 (or around that time) I had a tilded account too with a site about VRML. It was a decent site (almost an authority) with a lot of inbound links. Over time, and through some stupid accident, I lost that site completly, and I don't use the internet provider that gave me that url anymore. I never had any commercial considerations to doing web sites until 2-3 years ago, when Adsense happened. Man, I could use that site now for a little bit of SEO shots in the arm.
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amznVibe
msg:3142715 | 8:51 pm on Nov 1, 2006 (gmt 0) |
Ah that explains why when I try to gzip the internet it's perpetually at 99% ;) Bath, England? Really? Lot's of little facinating things come out of there. I'm still waiting for Google maps to get higher resolution images for that part of the country so I can see the chalk horse in the hillside :) [edited by: amznVibe at 8:57 pm (utc) on Nov. 1, 2006]
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sem4u
msg:3142804 | 10:01 pm on Nov 1, 2006 (gmt 0) |
I wonder how many of those sites use Adsense ;)
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weeks
msg:3142846 | 10:45 pm on Nov 1, 2006 (gmt 0) |
Drill down, and the stats are not that impressive. 67,366,432 of the websites are about Britney Spears.
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ken_b
msg:3142851 | 10:55 pm on Nov 1, 2006 (gmt 0) |
| ...It took until May of 2004 to reach the 50 million milestone; then only 30 more months to hit 100 million, ... |
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Someone point me to the slow lane please.
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xalex
msg:3142865 | 11:09 pm on Nov 1, 2006 (gmt 0) |
Congrats to the Internet, ahh me!
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hannamyluv
msg:3142885 | 11:26 pm on Nov 1, 2006 (gmt 0) |
Site #100,000,000 belongs to me, just in case anyone was wondering. ;)
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jcmoon
msg:3142892 | 11:31 pm on Nov 1, 2006 (gmt 0) |
... or how many of those sites "with content on them" are spam, splogs, or parked search+advertising pages ...
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jtara
msg:3142955 | 12:29 am on Nov 2, 2006 (gmt 0) |
| was anyone here among those initial 18000? |
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If July 1995 counts, yes. I'm going to break a rule and post the name, since I don't own it any more and it now belongs to a pretty high-profile organization that we can't avoid linking to... The domain was live.net. My San Diego Baycam which was on that domain started as a ~ site at a local ISP in 1994, and was if not the first outdoor webcam, certainly one of the first. [edited by: jtara at 12:36 am (utc) on Nov. 2, 2006]
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jessejump
msg:3142961 | 12:30 am on Nov 2, 2006 (gmt 0) |
Thank you to all the Search Engines. So I can find something.
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Webwork
msg:3142964 | 12:38 am on Nov 2, 2006 (gmt 0) |
That would be 87,378 websites and 99,912,621 clones, yes?
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jtara
msg:3142965 | 12:39 am on Nov 2, 2006 (gmt 0) |
| Thank you to all the Search Engines. So I can find something. |
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When I first downloaded Mosaic, that was not a problem. I think there were about 50 websites! Now, what search engine is it where you can actually find something? ;)
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walkman
msg:3143006 | 1:57 am on Nov 2, 2006 (gmt 0) |
take adsense out and the numbers will drop to 1 million :)
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kevinpate
msg:3143090 | 3:33 am on Nov 2, 2006 (gmt 0) |
then dump swimsuit, lingerie, politico related and p*rn sites and suddenyl we're down to 10,101? :)
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httpwebwitch
msg:3143178 | 5:05 am on Nov 2, 2006 (gmt 0) |
| was anyone here among those initial 18000? |
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yes. The first few sites I made (in 1995) predate archive.org, which is in internet terms, "prehistoric". At the time, the web was already a huge phenomenon - I guess 18000 would have seemed like a really big number back then.
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jtara
msg:3143276 | 7:40 am on Nov 2, 2006 (gmt 0) |
I just looked-up the first ISP I used in San Diego. Their domain name was registered in 1988. Now THAT'S prehistoric! My first Internet access was fairly limited. When I lived in Michigan, I installed PPP software on my IBM PC (yes, a *real* IBM PC...) and was able to access the Internet through a dial-up connection to my university. (Though, at the time, anyone with the right software could do this at no cost.) There wasn't any web. I was able to FTP and download software. It was very exciting. Really.
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ecommerceprofit
msg:3143372 | 9:40 am on Nov 2, 2006 (gmt 0) |
jtara - I remember that domain live.net :-) I visited a bunch of times - I forgot why now but there was something interesting there...was cool that it was in San Diego (which was warmer than where I was) - I also liked to visit to look at the technology...
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Matt Probert
msg:3143425 | 10:54 am on Nov 2, 2006 (gmt 0) |
| Bath, England? Really? Lot's of little facinating things come out of there. I'm still waiting for Google maps to get higher resolution images for that part of the country so I can see the chalk horse in the hillside :) |
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You wait until they process Dorset, particularly Cerne Abbas <BG> Matt
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SlyGuy
msg:3143800 | 5:04 pm on Nov 2, 2006 (gmt 0) |
I now officially own .00000144% of the entire Interweb. [edited by: SlyGuy at 5:05 pm (utc) on Nov. 2, 2006]
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smells so good
msg:3143830 | 5:24 pm on Nov 2, 2006 (gmt 0) |
Make that 100 Million and One.
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httpwebwitch
msg:3143852 | 5:40 pm on Nov 2, 2006 (gmt 0) |
update that: 100,000,009 as of this morning this is a perfect place to keep a running total. Let's do that.
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OptiRex
msg:3144144 | 9:01 pm on Nov 2, 2006 (gmt 0) |
| was anyone here among those initial 18000? |
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Most definitely, had already been constructing sites for 4 years! I hadn't realised there were that few, there certainly seemed to be plenty of competitiveness in optimisation then.
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bobothecat
msg:3144154 | 9:05 pm on Nov 2, 2006 (gmt 0) |
| was anyone here among those initial 18000? |
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Yep... had several. The best part in those days was being able to register/obtain domain names for free. ;)
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Wlauzon
msg:3144577 | 5:02 am on Nov 3, 2006 (gmt 0) |
I had a personal site domain back then, but never used it. Too bad I did not keep it active, as 3 letter domain names now are just about impossible to get. But that was just a passing thing, from what I recall about all you had to do to register a name was submit it with a valid address, so I just did it for grins and forgot about it. I did not register any real ones (ie ones that were actually used) until late 1996 but I think even then there were only like 100k sites. We are still using that one.
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kostis
msg:3153829 | 9:42 pm on Nov 11, 2006 (gmt 0) |
It would be interesting to know the distribution of the 100M sites according to the Pagerank
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