Netcraft reports there are now over 100 million Web sites world wide and growth is accelerating. The report also mentions that there were about 20,000 back in 1995.

Our original Web site, Mecklerweb.com (now internet.com) was launched in early 1994 - at that time I imagine there were only a few hundred.

My interest in the number of Web sites in the world is related to how Web sites will promote themselves in the years to come. I believe that in 10 years there could well be one billion Web sites as the number of blogs proliferates and third world sites start to grow rapidly along with huge growth in China and India. I also think that at least 10 percent of these billion Web sites will be significant buyers of images, music, animations, clipart, flash movies and stock footage. And finally I believe (but with no guarantees) that our company will service these 100 million customers better than anyone else in the digital content space. This is what separates us from our competitors. Our competitors are good, but they do not own content. We own over 7 million digitized pieces of content and we are growing that number everyday.

Now the game for us to meld all of this content together into a Web site that emulates the Home Depot concept. In other words a one-stop shop for the digital designers worldwide. Our tech and software teams are busy working on this concept. Hopefully we will launch this enterprise within 14 months. Stay tuned.