I made my first experiments in
Yahoo Geocites and saw that you colud have a site up and go in less than an hour. I deleted them after some days.
My first real website is still alive
here.
Some people working in finance constantly asked for my updated link collection, so I decided to put that collection on the internet.
Jacob Nielsen also had a post on the same topic.
"The early Web's explosive growth rate has slowed, but even the mature Web is still expanding and recently crossed the 100 M websites mark."
Related link:
Internet World Statistics.