Kill the 53-Day Meme
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9509.html

Nielsen, Jakob
Alertbox
1995

Abstract:

One frequently finds newspaper or magazine articles about the Internet or the World Wide Web stating that the number of servers on the WWW is doubling every 53 days, 'according to a source at Sun Microsystems.' Well, I am that source, and I don't believe the 53-day estimate any more.