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Mehammed Teshome
Mehammed Teshome

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How Many Websites Are There in the World?

Have you ever thought of how many active websites are in the world? did you think it would be hundreds ? thousands ? millions or what?. think whatever.
anyways there are currently over 1.86 billion websites. The trend of website numbers increasing continues year after year. By 2014, there were 1 billion websites online. It took only five years to almost double that number.
However, not all of the 1.8 billion websites currently online are active. It’s estimated that less than 200 million of that number are actually active.

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The fist site on the internet was created by tim berners lee and his teams and the website was
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
the first web browser the web browser Mosaic. it was created by Marc Andreessen and his colleagues at the University of Illinois in 1993. It was the first web browser that allowed users to use “point-and-click” graphical manipulations.
Domain Name registration was not availbale untile 1985. before that the fist domain namefor intranet service was Nordu.net, created on January 1, 1985. It was the domain of Scandinavian research collaboration.
The first registered domain title goes to Symbolics.com, a domain belonging to a computer systems company in Cambridge, Mass. It was registered on March 15, 1985, followed by Bbn.com, registered on April 24, 1985.

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