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WWW Crosses 100 Million Sites Mark

Do you get the feeling that sometimes there are just too many sites for you to look at, too many sites to search, or even to many sites to handle? Well, if you do, then you have a good reason for it. Netcraft, an Internet company that specializes in monitoring and tracking online activity since 1995, published a very interesting detail about the web we are all surfing. During the month of October, an important milestone was crossed, and our beloved net now holds more than 100,000,000 sites.

The dramatic growth in recent years comes from the communization process that the network is going through. Users are opening new blogs all the time. Small businesses are taking their business online, and the World Wide Web is getting crowded by the minute. A more thorough investigation into the net shows that only about 47 percent of all websites are considered "Active Sites", which means they are visiting by people and "used" online.

When the Internet was first started, as a means of sharing information between physics faculties at different Universities, no one dreamed that it will evolve to the `monster` it is now. With YouTube and other content sharing services, there are many online communities offering users that ability to make their lives a bit more `online`. The net is constantly growing, and we should expect our web to cross many more milestones as thing develop.