Your citations don't say anything about the web. I also don't know why you are wasting your time. I am not really interested in trying to convince you since you

Your citations don't say anything about the web. I also don't know why you are wasting your time. I am not really interested in trying to convince you since you are astoundingly abusive. FreeBSD was certainly loved, by researchers and universities, but I don't think we can trust a source that appears to be marketing, "we're No. 1!" I know why NetBSD ran the web for so long, because it was based on BSD4.3, ran on everything, was well-supported by a community in active development, included pkgsrc and all the ports that came with it, and it is free, unlike the alternatives Solaris, AIX, HP/UX, which also more often than not took advantage of pkgsrc. Linux was just not a viable option for running a public webserver between 1993-200x, but as to why NetBSD and not FreeBSD, I can't answer, but I know for a fact that most webservers globally ran NetBSD from the development of WWW and for over a decade, and the rest, in minority, ran Windows Server IIS. Why this is not widely documented is no mystery; it just isn't that interesting. Believe it or not, I honestly don't care. Believe what you wish.