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<img alt="Internet" src="http://www.website-monitoring.eu/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/75fbc_5576940071_60011c3f77_o.jpg” title=”Internet” class=”right” width=”150″ height=”100″ />As you may know if you’re a regular reader of this blog, sometimes we like to take a trip down memory lane. It’s time for another one of those trips, to the murky past of the Internet and the dawning World Wide Web of 1995.

Let’s start first with the people who actually use the Internet. How many were there back then?

Worldwide Internet users in 1995

Today there are almost 2 billion Internet users worldwide. In 2000, there were 361 million worldwide. But go back even farther in time and you’ll find out that back in 1995, the Internet had a worldwide user base of less than 40 million.

For perspective:

• The Internet user base of today is 50 times larger than it was in 1995.
• <a href="http://www.website-monitoring.com/blog/2010/03/17/facebook-facts-and-figures-history-statistics/”>facebook today is 15 times larger than the entire Internet was in 1995.

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Top Internet countries, 1995 and now

The top five Internet countries in 1995 (in terms of Internet users) were:

1. United States (25 million)
2. Japan (2 million)
3. Germany (1.5 million)
4. Canada (1.2 million)
5. United Kingdom (1.1 million)

Now the top countries are:

1. China (420 million)
2. United States (239 million)
3. Japan (99 million)
4. India (81 million)
5. Brazil (76 million)

A wee bit of a difference, as you can see. Both in which countries are in the top, and of course the actual number of Internet users per country.

What about the number of websites?

Today there are 298 million websites on the Internet (as of March 2011, according to Netcraft). Back in June of 1995 there were 23,500 websites. For those of you counting, that means there are 12,681 times as many websites now as there were in 1995.

So, if we were to make a similar chart as the one for Internet users above, the 1995 part would be just a tiny fraction of a pixel.

A few other things from 1995

To help you orient yourself in time, here are some other things that happened in 1995.

• Netscape introduced JavaScript.
• Netscape Navigator completely dominated the web browser market.
• Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 1.
• Microsoft released Windows 95. Most people were using Win 3.1 or 3.11 at the time.
• Sun announced Java.
• Intel released their 133 MHz Pentium processor, and the Pentium Pro processor (running up to a mighty 200 MHz).
• Sony launched the first Playstation.
• Linus Torvalds released version 1.2.0 of the Linux kernel (a.k.a. Linux 95).
• And sadly enough: The final original strip of Calvin & Hobbes was published.

Oh, and some guy called Bill Clinton had recently been elected president of the United States, but that didn’t quite fit in with the geek level of this post. <img src="http://www.website-monitoring.eu/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/ad698_icon_wink.gif” alt=”;)” class=”wp-smiley” />

Data sources: Wikipedia, Netcraft, Internet World Stats, The World Bank.

Photo credit: Steve Rhode.

Further reading for those of you who like stats: The incredible growth of the Internet since 2000.

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HttPrint is a web server fingerprinting tool by Net Square. It reveals all the details about a web server and it makes a pretty decent conclusion what the web server used. Identification is based on the implementation differences in the HTTP protocol.

In a previous post I have discussed server masking as a way to protect you against crackers and potential threads. This tool kind of goes the other way around. There are two ways to look at it: one – as a weapon for crackers; two – as a way for you to make sure that you masked your server properly and there are no giveaways to your doings.

<a rel="fancybox" href="http://www.website-monitoring.eu/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/792db_serverprint.jpg”><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-676" title="Server figerprint" src="http://www.website-monitoring.eu/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/792db_serverprint.jpg” alt=”" width=”120″ height=”120″ />HttPrint goes beyond the banner string of a web server and looks at other characteristics before it jumps into conclusions. The tool looks at the HTTP protocol’s behavior and the way it is implemented by the server. This includes HTTP header field ordering, forbidden operation response, improper HTTP version response and improper protocol response.

Another giveaway it notices is the default usage of eTags on some servers. I don’t think they are actually using this as a signal at the moment, but it is a good giveaway. Lighttpd usually has this enabled by default, as for Apache, you need to turn it on manually.

One of the other great features of the tool is the html reports. When will that come useful? Well, when you are running the console version (probably automated) and you would like to see eye-friendly reports in your browser. You will also get the percentage of the results’ accuracy. They use multiple signals, so results might or might not be true, but they will surely be enough to be at least an educated guess.

According to the developers of mod_security, they can successfully fool HttPrint, which to me sounds like a relief. After all, this is mostly a defensive security measure.

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As a European specialist in Website monitoring, internetVista offers its customers the potential to follow the performance of their Website from their <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/internetvista-monitoring/id416542631?mt=8″ target=”_blank”>iPhone or iPad.
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According to an InternetVista study, e-commerce sites withstood the inflow of visitors well, who came for their end of the year shopping. However, some virtual corporations reported failures during the crucial period. You can find the complete report in our <a href="http://www.internetvista.com/en/website-availability-studies.htm”>”studies” section.
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<img alt="Pingdom and Android" src="http://www.website-monitoring.eu/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/d3602_5570690205_4623872f57_o.png” title=”Pingdom and Android” class=”right” width=”150″ height=”150″ />You’ve been asking for it, ladies and gentlemen, and now you have it: a Pingdom app for Android.

Just like our iPhone app, the Pingdom Android app is an excellent companion to the Pingdom uptime monitoring service. It lets you connect to your Pingdom account to view the status of the servers and websites you’re monitoring, and also supports alerts via push notifications.

The app is free, and works together with all types of Pingdom accounts (including free accounts).

Features

The main point of the Pingdom service is that you should be the first to know when your site goes down. The sooner you know about a problem, the sooner you can fix it. The Pingdom Android app makes it easy for you to be on top of things on the go.

• Get alerts directly to your Android phone.
• View the current status (up or down) of all your monitored sites.
• View uptime and response time statistics for each site.
• Customize the list of shown checks (each check monitors a site or server).
• Get information about each check, such as its monitoring resolution, check type (HTTP, Ping, DNS, SMTP, IMAP, POP3, TCP port, etc.) and target (IP address or URL).

It might be worth pointing out that push notifications (a.k.a. cloud notifications) require Android 2.2 or later (because that’s when google added a push notification service).

Screenshots

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Try it out!

To use the Android app you first need to have a Pingdom account. You can learn more about our uptime monitoring service at www.pingdom.com, where you can also sign up for a free account.

And actually, you can even sign up for a free account from within the app if you want to. It’s that easy.

Be a happy webmaster, for free

Since the Pingdom Android app works with free accounts, and push notifications are free, you have a zero-cost monitoring solution for your website. Or as we like to put it:

Free monitoring + free Android app + free alerts = happy webmaster

We hope you like it!

And just in case you missed the link, here it is again: Pingdom for Android

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