Links are the currency of the Web
IDEA No 26
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In the early days of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee maintained a list of websites on the CERN web server. This was fine at the beginning of 1992, when there were 26. By the end of 1994 there were more than 10,000.
Google founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
The first search engine was developed before the Web. ‘Archie’ (short for ‘archive’) searched FTP sites on the internet. Other search engines followed, but it was not until 1995 that an engine emerged that crawled, indexed and ranked websites. By 1997, AltaVista was the most popular page on the Web and was handling more than 20 million queries ...
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