How Popular is the Internet?

I was taking a week’s vacation on Cape Cod in 1995 when Netscape went public and the whole internet age really began. Before users could send and receive pictures over the net, this communication technology was available only for words and text which limited access to people who could read and write.

But once we could create pictorial content and even more importantly, display the pictures we created on our own internet space known as a website, the internet really began to take off.

It’s estimated that there are more than 1 billion websites on the web, although many of these sites are either dormant or completely dead and gone, but several hundred thousand new sites are evidently added every day.

The growth of the internet because of the ability of individual users to create their own online presence with a personal-owned website, however, was nothing compared to how the internet expanded when companies like Facebook and Twitter allowed users to create their own websites by just logging onto the app and accessing their personal page.

Facebook started displaying content in 2005 and Twitter appeared the following year. According to the company’s most recent report, there are now 3.049 million monthly users on Facebook, and Twitter now X has some 600 million subscribers and gets 4.3 billion visits each month.