What was going on with the Internet in 2023
Artificial Intelligence
In response to the ChatGPT launch in November 2022, Google launched Gemini(Bard) in 2023. Both ChatGT and Gemini are large language models that employ advanced AI technology to provide accurate and relevant responses to user inquiries.
On July 23, 2023 Elon Musk rebranded Twitter to X using the x.com domain (formerly associated with PayPal back in 1998 when Musk merged his X.com with Confinity in 2000 to create PayPal.)
In 2023 there was an estimated 1.13 billion websites on the internet with an estimated 252,000 new websites being created every day. However, less than 200 million of these websites are active.