In 1992 There Were Only 50 Web Sites… Now That Was A Growth Industry
I recently tried to find an snippet from the MS Internet Explorer 3.0 (from Win95C) that stated there were only 150 web sites in 1993. However, the help file I was looking for was a link to a web site which is now gone and http://www.archive.org/ has nothing for it. After a an hour or so of searching I found another source which says the same thing:
The first graphical Interface for the Internet was proposed in 1989 (later to be called the World Wide Web or the “Web”).
In 1992, there were only 50 Web sites in the world; a year later there were still no more than 150 Web sites.
Then, in late 1993, Mosaic was launched, providing an easy-to-install, easy-to-use program for accessing the Web.
By 1994, commercial Web sites proliferated so that by year-end, there were as many as 3,000 Web sites.
A year later, there were more than 25,000 Web sites in use.227 By year-end 2000, there were more than 30 million web sites.