In 1995, when I was wrapping up my time at Borland, you could actually buy a published book that listed every website in existence. Since there were only about 25,000 sites, that book was less than one hundred pages long. But by March of 1997, when Reed and I were making our brainstorming commutes over the Santa Cruz Mountains, there were about 300,000 websites. By the end of that year, there were a million—and the number of users had grown to a hundred times that number.
The monumental increase in the internet within the span of a year showed how much the internet and access had grown.
Wonder how many websites there are now?
We have so many users because we all have the internet in the palm of our hands.
