Question 1: Who Wants to be an Internet Nerd!

At the start of 1994, how many websites with their own URL were on the World Wide Web?

• 130
• 550
• 25,000
• 1,000,000

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ANSWER

130  (CORRECT) Believe it or not,  according to https://www.internetlivestats.com/total-number-of-websites/, the number of websites with their own URL (Domain Name) at the beginning of 1994 was only 130 and would quickly grow 2006% to 2,738 websites by the end of the year.  *

* https://www.internetlivestats.com/total-number-of-websites/

5,500 (WRONG) A reasonable guess but no banana.

25,000 (WRONG) 25,000 would be a good guess for 1995 but at the beginning of 1994 the number of websites with their own URL was really quite small.

1,000,000 (WRONG) Now this is the number many of us would have guessed, but the Internet won’t host over a million websites for another 3 years.

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