There are more than a billion Internet users in the world and tens of billions of web pages. Things were quite different in 1994 when I first showed the world wide web to the senior management team of IBM. Most of the web sites at that time were government or education related and my favorite back then was NASA which just recently celebrated it’s 50th Anniversary.

Not sure who had the first web site but Internet domains began to be registered in 1985. IBM.com was #11 — registered in March of 1986. NASA was not among the first 100 but when they launched their web site in the 1990’s they had an awesome amount of content. In fact the United States government has set a good example of using the Internet effectively. (See "The Top Twenty Essential US Government Web Sites").
Unfortunately, there was no web when NASA started back in the 1950’s but the anniversary web site has captured the history very well. An animated robot gives a brief intro on how to navigate the site and you get treated to a few tunes from the 1950s (such as "Tutti Frutti") and you can then move through the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s and enjoy a lot of multimedia.
Aside from many projects with the shuttle, Mars Rover, Phoenix Lander, the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, NanoSatellites, and countless other exciting areas of exploration, NASA is about to acquire a new supercomputer cluster. NASA partner IBM Corporation will be building an iDataPlex cluster system which will combine 1,024 Intel Xeon quad-core processors with Nasa’s existing Discover computing cluster. The combined system will run at a top speed of 67 teraflops — 67 trillion calculations per second. This will put it well up in the TOP500 List. The new iDataPlex system is made by supercomputer leader Big Blue but is also part of the company’s "’Big Green" initiative. The supercomputer cluster will be running at 40 per cent of the power of predecessors but provide five times the computing power.
The new NASA/IBM system is called the "Discover Cluster" and will be used primarily for modeling of the 21st century climate and analyzing the effects of solar activity on the planet.