According to Pingdom, the latest figures show that there are now more than 162 million websites on the internet today.

At the end of 1990, Info.cern.ch became the address of the world's first-ever website and was created by Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist at the CERN particle physics laboratory and inventor of the World Wide Web.

Pingdom reports that by mid-1993 there were 130 websites, by January 1996 there were 100,000 websites and today the latest figures show there are more than 162 million websites. Pingdom said it gathered data from a couple of different sources to create the graph which covers December 1990 to March 2008.

The monitoring service says: "It's amazing how the web has gone from consisting of just this first little web page to the huge network of millions and millions of websites that it is today, and how pervasive the web has become in our society."

"We do our banking online, read our news online, have our encyclopedias online, meet friends online. And all this has happened since 1990."

Look at Pingdom's graph of how we got from one to 162 million websites on the internet.

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