The Internet now

Here's what the Internet was like in June 2008, in terms of numbers of domains, web server platforms and so on: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2008/06/22/june_2008_web_server_survey.html

I should take an archive of that article - it shows the growth of the internet from the beginning of the 'dot-com' era, circa 1995-98, and it will make an excellent comparison in say 10 years now that IPv6 may begin to appear, and more importantly, more top level domains have been allowed (ie instead of just the usual .com, .net, .org, .mil, .gov, .edu , .info, .biz, and all the two letter country codes, we could have someone offering .xxx or .sex, and so on!)

Personally I think those domains are a good idea - what better way to declare a site that has adult content, which would make it easy to allow someone to choose whether to or not to block access to 'unsafe' content (great for parents, and offices who want to block that kind of surfing). Of course, it wouldnt work - too many people would circumvent it. Well, an infinite pool of monkeys.....