AMAZING FACTS ABOUT INTERNET DID YOU KNOW ABOUT IT
Happy birthday to the World Wide Web; the project turned 20 this past April..
We use it every day; you’re using it right now and so are about 2.2 billion other people. But how much do you really know about it?
On April 30, 1993, CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) gave birth to the World Wide Web.
Check out these facts about the spectacular internet, and remember..!!
users on the Internet is 2.2
billion! In 2006, this number
was only 600 million. So in a
decade, the internet users have
grown by almost 370%
2. Facebook.com ingests over
500 Terabytes of Data every
day. This includes 2.7 million
Likes and 300 million photo
uploads, daily! (Source – CNet)
3. Up to 40% of all accounts and
8% of all messages on social
media sites are created by
Spammers. (Source-
Bloomberg)
4. Every month, Google, the
world’s leading Search engine
handles 100 Billion Searches!
That equates to almost 40,000
every second. Yes, 40,000!
5. The first Webcam was
created at the University of
Cambridge, UK. Can you guess
what was it used for? Well,
they used it to monitor a
coffee pot!
6. The world’s first website
and web server was launched
on August 6th, 1991. It was
published by Tim Berbers Lee,
and the website URL was
Info.cern.ch
7. The world’s most expensive
domain name ever sold is
Insure.com at $16 million.
Sex.com comes next, which
was sold for $14 million.
8. Internet usage is highest in
Iceland, where 97.8% of its
population uses the internet.
In USA, it was 78.3%, China
38.4% and North Korea lowest
at 0%.
9. Philip M. Parker designed an
algorithm that makes Books
from info found on the web.
The “world’s most prolific
author” has created over
200,000 books!
10. How much does the
internet weigh? The weight of
all information on the internet
is 0.2 millionths of an Ounce.
That is similar to the weight of
the smallest possible grain of sand.
There are 7 people in the world who hold the “key to the internet.” If in the event of a major catastrophe the internet is shut down these key holders will together be able to reboot an integral part of the system.
Nowadays we have Mozilla Firefox & Internet Explorer but the very first widely popular web browser was Mosaic which was available from 1993 and discontinued in 1997.
The internet accrued 50 million users in just 5 years. It took TV 13 years to do that.
A surfing session lasts on average just under an hour for most people – 51 minutes to be exact.
75% of Swedish people use the internet making them the country with the largest percentage of internet users.
With satellite based internet now available there is no country in the world that cannot access the internet although Governments in certain countries still continue to severely restrict its use. In North Korea only Government officials and named officers have access to the net and China is famous for restricting its public’s access to certain sites.
People who use social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter will use 10% of their entire life time on these sites.
As a continent Asia has the largest number of internet users at 42% and this looks set for massive growth as infiltration of the net is still at 20%, meaning 80% is still not using it.
19% of married couples meet online, making it the most successful method for meeting the “one.” Following an online introduction the most successful methods for meeting a future wife or husband continues to be through work or friends, with each of these methods getting 17% of married couples together.
Each day, about 20 million people “tweet”. Internet experts speculate that over half of all tweets are based on controversial subjects.
The first internet banner ad was launched in 1994 and it ended up being a huge hit because people just couldn’t resist clicking. It looks like an older ad, but the same strategies are used by advertisers today.
The United States is actually in third place currently for the world’s most internet users. Asia easily comes in first with about 36% while Europe is in second with 29% and the States get a disappointing bronze medal with 21%. On the other hand, Americans are #1 for the most people who use the internet and watch TV simultaneously and also easily get the gold for the most bloggers.
About 1/6 of Earth’s total population enjoys surfing the internet at least once per month. Many of the people who do not surf the internet, however, have noted that they would like to enjoy internet pictures and videos if they had the opportunity.
About 15 hours of video are uploaded to Youtube from around the globe each minute. After reading about this, I now know why the site typically has a limit of 10 minutes per video.
* CD - Compact Disk.
* DVD - Digital Video Disk.
* AM - Ante Meredian.
* PM - Post Meredian.
* AD - AnnoDomini.
* BC - Before Christ .
* FM - Frequency Modulation.
* GPRS - General Packet Radio
Service.
* USB - Universal Serial Bus.
* www - World Wide Web.
* Http - Hypertext Transfer
Protocol.
* HTML - Hypertext Mark
Language.
* LAN - Local Area Network.
* SIM - Subsciber Identity
Module .
* GSM - Global System for Mobile.
* WLAN - Wireless Local
Network.
* SQL - Structured Query
Language.
* XSS/CSS - Cross Site Scripting
* LFI - Link Fragmentation and
Interleaving .
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