“In Chapter 17, I limned the creation and development of the
Web. In a subsequent chapter, I’ll talk about the geographical
spread of Linux. But first, I want to look at the spread of the
Internet and the Web that depends on it.“The ARPAnet became functional in 1969: at the end of that year,
there were four nodes. In January 1976, there were 63 (so much for
5- or 6-bit addressing). Five years later, in August 1981, Host
Table #152 listed 213 hosts. In May 1982, Host Table #166 listed
235…”