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Re:Ask HN: Are you put off building something because it alr... by sonnyblarney on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @02:57PM (#19790821)
Alta Vista was tiny when Google beat them.

Google had the entire internet inedexed and was running their engine from Standford with just a few machines.

The internet was tiny back in 1997.

In 1997 there was 1 million web sites.

Today there are 2 billion.

[1] https://www.internetlivestats.com/total-number-of-websites/

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