The world surpassed the threshold of 1 billion websites

The world has surpassed the threshold of 1 billion websites in September 2014. That's Live Stats' Internet estimates based on monthly fluctuations in counting live and dead websites.

The first website in world history was registered on August 7, 1991.

It is Berners-Lee 's World Wide Web Project website , a British computer scientist considered the father of the web protocol. A year later, another 9 websites appeared.

In 1993, the world had 130 websites and more than 14 million Internet users. The number of websites surpassing the 1 million threshold in 1997, at that time there were more than 120 million Internet users.

In 2007, the number of websites surpassed the 100 million threshold, while the number of Internet users surpassed the 1 billion threshold in 2005.

In June 2013, the world had more than 672 million websites and 2.7 billion Internet users.

According to statistics of the Alexa website ranking service in June 2014, Top 10 websites with the highest number of visitors in the world are Google, Facebook, YouTube, Yahoo !, Baidu, Wikipedia, Tencent QQ and Taobao respectively. Twitter, and Windows Live.