On New Year's Day in 1994 there were an estimated 623 websites. In the entire world. That was practically yesterday.

I read that stat in The Week last week, along with this quote:-

"There has not been, in the history of mankind, anything that has changed so dramatically as computer communications, in terms of the rate of change". This comes from Steve Crocker, part of the team that made one computer connect remotely with another in October 1969 at the University of California. (As an aside, Tim Berners-Lee came much later. His contribution to the internet can be likened to UCal inventing flight, and him inventing the jet engine.)

So, a passing thought. We wrestle with the New Digital World and suffer the paranoia that maybe someone else knows something we don't, or is doing something we could be. But perhaps we should remember that when we're dealing with an entity that's expanding faster than the universe, it's not about staying ahead of it but about getting behind it, using it for our needs rather than being a slave to it, and taking advantage of it as it suits us. There, feel better now...