Borrowed from a Zen Internet newsletter...
"When did the Web begin? The first Web site was built by Tim Berners-Lee and appeared at http://info.cern.ch/ on August 6, 1991. It provided an explanation of what the World Wide Web was, or was to be, and how to acquire a browser that would let you see it. It was also the world's first Web directory, where Berners-Lee later maintained a list of other Web sites apart from his own. Managing the directory didn't take much work at first. Two years later, there were only 600 Web sites to be found anywhere and a mere 100,000 by 1995. But by the end of that year, people were beginning to take a lot more notice of 'The World Wide Web' and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) like Compuserve, America Online and Zen Internet offered customers Internet access for the first time. Zen launched with a network capable of supporting up to six simultaneous dial-up users. Within two years, it was providing the fastest Internet access in the country, making regular appearances at the top of monthly 'speed league' tables and winning "ISP of the Year", the first of many national awards. Today, the company has a core network capacity over 20,000 times larger, it matches its first year sales every working day, and the world has accumulated an estimated 75 million Web sites."
