{"id":1649,"date":"2006-11-01T13:14:37","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T18:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2006-11-01T13:27:25","modified_gmt":"2006-11-01T18:27:25","slug":"100-million-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/100-million-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"100 Million Websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just took a call from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wchl1360.com\/\">John Hill of WCHL 1360-AM<\/a> for comments on the CNN story &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/TECH\/internet\/11\/01\/100millionwebsites\/index.html\">Web Reaches New Milestone: 100 Million Sites.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear to me immediately what constitutes a site, perhaps a unique URL?, but <a href=\"http:\/\/news.netcraft.com\/archives\/2006\/11\/01\/november_2006_web_server_survey.html\">a serious looking guy from Netcraft (Rich Miller) assures us on the CNN bit (and at the Netcraft site) that we are there in numbers<\/a>. If each MySpace and Facebook entry were considered a web site, where would we be? <strong>Note:<\/strong> I see from the Netcraft site linked just above that he means <strong>hosts<\/strong> not sites.<\/p>\n<p>With the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Google+goes+wild+for+wikis\/2100-1030_3-6131283.html\">Google acquisitions of JotSpot, Writerly, and YouTube<\/a>, we can see that the web site per se is less important than web services that allow for collaboration, cooperative work and contribution of and comment on content. Even at this the content is less important than the social acts of embedded in the collaboration, etc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/old.paul.html\">My first web page, perhaps web site?<\/a>, was created on a NeXT with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/People\/Berners-Lee\/\">Tim Berners-Lee<\/a> looking on back in 1992. It was ahead of its time. Not because I made it or anything that I did, but because TBL&#8217;s web browser wasn&#8217;t a browser. It was a collaborative communications tool from its conception.<\/p>\n<p>I opened two windows. One in which I surfed the web &#8212; all 5 or so sites. One in which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/old.paul.html\">I created my web page<\/a>. I took <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/old.page.html\">TBL&#8217;s own page<\/a> and added my changes making it my own. I then added new links by highlighting and dragging to the composing window. It as completely collaborative.<\/p>\n<p>We are only nearing that ease of collaboration and creation now with what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oreillynet.com\/pub\/a\/oreilly\/tim\/news\/2005\/09\/30\/what-is-web-20.html\">Dale Dougherty named Web 2.0<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I also got off on how all of this ongoing storm of creativity is fed and nourished by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savetheinternet.com\/\">Net Neutrality<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savetheinternet.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/01\/lamed-duck-alert-dont-let-senators-sell-us-out\/\">Write your senator and support Net Neutrality today!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just took a call from John Hill of WCHL 1360-AM for comments on the CNN story &#8220;Web Reaches New Milestone: 100 Million Sites.&#8221; It&#8217;s not clear to me immediately what constitutes a site, perhaps a unique URL?, but a serious looking guy from Netcraft (Rich Miller) assures us on the CNN bit (and at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-information-commons","category-virtual-communities","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}