The internet has come a long way in the last few decades, and one of the things that has evolved along with it is web hosting. Not too long ago, web hosting was a privilege of companies with deep pockets, and that led to a rise in all kinds of free hosting services.
Well, we’ve compiled a short history of free web hosting and prepared this infographic for your viewing pleasure. It’s amazing to see how things evolved from the birth to the recent death of Geocities.
And for your sharing pleasure, we’ve also included an copy-and-pastable embed code. We hope you enjoy…
History of Free Web Hosting Infographic Embed Code
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theres only one problem with this, i download movies at around 800 kbps and could have it finished in under half an hour not 20 hours at a much higher rate
2005 saw 1,018 billion internet users…
might want to fix that.
A very nice piece of work summarizing all the important events! I wonder what’s your prediction in the future. Free cloud hosting on mobile devices? Like what Google is doing with the Android phone now? Or we are actually already in the cloud without us noticing.
Liam, thanks, it’s now been updated!
Thanks for the comment Kane, we’ll get a bit technical on you here. It depends on what kind of file you are talking about. A movie ripped and compressed in DIVX would weight less than 700 MB. If everything goes well on a 800 kBps system (notice the capitalized B here), it should take a little bit less than an hour and can be even dowloaded in less than 20 minutes in perfect conditions.
However, a movie DVD is 9.8 Gigabytes. And at close to 1.7 mbps (which is really 200 kBps, there is a difference between a kilobite (kb) and a kilobyte (kB) that some ISP like to blur), it should take between 17 and 22 hours to download, depending on many factors.
You can use the calculator here to see how we calculated our average download time : http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/calculate/downloadcalculator.php
Daren, it’s hard to predict very far out, but picture a few more near term changes that are coming:
- All music being cloud based, no more traditional iPods with local storage. Coming soon.
- Federated clouds where in-house and outsourced clouds are blended in the same implementation. Coming soon.
- People will start using digital pads for reading eBooks that come from the cloud. Oh wait.
Those were the days, remember back in early 90’s when ARIN used to publish IP to HOSTNAMES in a text file.