The Netcraft Webserver Survey is 8 years old this month. Happy Birthday!
The first Web Server Survey ran in August 1995 and found 18,957 sites. NCSA and CERN were the leading web servers of the day, in front of Netscape which had recently IPO’d, and the Apache project which started a few months earlier in March 1995. Microsoft-IIS, HTTP/1.1 hosting and domain name registrars were not then on the horizon.
It’s a vastly different landscape today, and thanks for keeping track of it, Netcraft!