Re:The Return of the 90s Web
by rkagerer on Friday June 19, 2020 @01:16AM
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Granted it's silly, but I'm fascinated by this thought experiment.
It's not easy to quantify the amount of useful content on the internet. The 2bn figure above seems to stem from registered domains, and depending who you ask [1][2] around three quarters of them are "inactive" (e.g. landing page for a parked domain).
At the other end of the spectrum, Google's index surpassed 130 trillion pages four years ago [3]. Point in favour of my opponent!
If everyone connected to the internet indexed one page a day over the course of their lifetime we might just about do it. And anyone creating a new page would need to [arrange to] index it themselves.
It's not easy to quantify the amount of useful content on the internet. The 2bn figure above seems to stem from registered domains, and depending who you ask [1][2] around three quarters of them are "inactive" (e.g. landing page for a parked domain).
At the other end of the spectrum, Google's index surpassed 130 trillion pages four years ago [3]. Point in favour of my opponent!
If everyone connected to the internet indexed one page a day over the course of their lifetime we might just about do it. And anyone creating a new page would need to [arrange to] index it themselves.
[1] https://www.internetlivestats.com/total-number-of-websites/
[2] https://hostingtribunal.com/blog/how-many-websites/#:~:text=....
[3] https://searchengineland.com/googles-search-indexes-hits-130...