If Tim Berners-Lee is the father of the World Wide Web, he's just had his billionth child.
That's how many websites are now in existence, according to online tracker Internet Live Stats - and the number is growing fast.
Mr Berners-Lee touted the milestone in a Twitter post on Wednesday morning.
The 59-year-old was a young computer scientist working at the CERN lab in Switzerland when he outlined his vision in a 1989 paper.
The 25th anniversary of that event was celebrated in April.
The idea for a way of easily accessing files on linked computers sparked a phenomenon that has radically changed the world.
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