‘As for Adam Curry, even though he was no web designer and was just as interested in Gopher as the web, in hindsight it's remarkable that he managed to set up a website at all in 1993 — given the technical expertise required and the very limited bandwidth available. By the end of 1993, there were only about 620 web servers in the world; and one of them hosted MTV.com, thanks to Curry.’

https://cybercultural.com/p/1993-mtv-internet/