{"id":109992,"date":"2014-09-17T07:19:47","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T05:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=109992"},"modified":"2014-09-17T07:21:21","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T05:21:21","slug":"websites-reach-1-billion-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/109992-websites-reach-1-billion-mark.html","title":{"rendered":"Websites reach 1 billion mark"},"content":{"rendered":"

The number of websites has burst above one billion and is growing apace, according to figures updated in real time Tuesday by online tracker Internet Live Stats.<\/p>\n

Tim Berners-Lee, considered the father of the World Wide Web, touted the milestone on Twitter — one of the most prominent websites in the mushrooming but sometimes murky Internet world.<\/p>\n

It comes as the agency responsible for managing addresses on the Internet expands choices far beyond “.com” and “.net” to provide more online real estate for the booming ranks of websites.<\/p>\n

The World Wide Web turned 25 in April this year.<\/p>\n

It was born from an idea in a technical paper from Berners-Lee, then an obscure, young computer scientist at a European physics lab.<\/p>\n

Berners-Lee was working at CERN lab in Switzerland when he outlined a way to easily access files on linked computers, paving the way for a global phenomenon that has touched the lives of billions of people.<\/p>\n

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