Introducing the Internet

The amount of websites available on the world wide web is staggering and stretches far past 230,000,000, an amount that just keeps on growing for every year that passes.

Within this gargantuan mass of browsable locations there is a large amount of overflowing information and creativity, sites that inspire you, inform you and assist you in your pending struggle. Yet there is also a big load of nothing. There are websites that provide you with just domains, ads and under construction signs. No information, no inspiration, not even an ounce of entertainment.

While the number of null websites greatly cut down on the total number of total sites available, there are still more good websites than you will be able to visit in a full lifetime, much less partake in all the useful information or services of.

It’s Wide, The Web

Even if you did spend your whole life trying to visit all the websites in the world, even if they weren’t constantly updated; even if new sites weren’t constantly created, the goal would be completely impossible. During the past decade the amount of available websites has doubled many times over and quickly breached the limit of sites anyone will ever be able to visit in a normal lifetime.

The web is wide, and it is growing even wider. Even though it has not yet surpassed the life of a normal human being, it has by far outsourced humankind in terms of possible information intake. The net is a world of it’s own, and relatively, it may even be a bit bigger than our own material Earth. The thought is pretty amazing, and at the same time… a bit depressing.

The amount of informational input has or is quickly outgrowing the resources available to maintain all stored material. This does not mean you won’t be able to access the net, or that large communities will start crashing like stars out of the skies, what this means is that the burden of digital material is larger than the world can handle, and a lot of information is lost in the process of evolution. Just think about all the photos, articles & fragments of memory that are constantly erased in the constant flow online.

There is a lot of ambition involved in the making of net, and a lot of creativity scattered out across its massive surface, and though you probably stumble over great sites now and then in your venture across cyberspace there are doubtlessly a lot of places you would like to visit that are left undiscovered. I’m happy you found this site, since the chance of you doing so is at least one in a million, if not one in a billion!

A Long Way

I have visited hundreds of thousands of websites along my ventures online, and I’ve found plenty of unique and wellmade ones on the way. Despite their inspiring presence it would be a waste of both my and your time listing all of them here, or strive to partake in the constantly renewed stream of inspiration they provide. My ambition with this link section is not to gather all the best links in the world in one place. Instead I hope to provide a database of links that are of continual use to both myself and the rest of the world.

As I work primarily with design while online, resources of a webrelated sort are the primary focus. Regardless, there should be something here for everyone, even you, even if you don’t have the least of interest in design or webrelated services. ;) The database currently contains 740+ links.

Enjoy!