12 facts about the internet that will blow your mind
At a time when internet has become an inseparable part of our life, it's good to know some interesting and fun facts about the internet.
From booking tickets online to communicating with anyone on the planet, from attending online classes to shopping on the e-commerce sites, from watching movies at home to collecting almost any information; internet has certainly brought a revolution in the field of technology and made our life quite easier. Internet is defined as a global network that makes all the computers all over the world stay connected with each other. Here, we have gathered some amazing facts about the internet that will blow your mind.
ARPAnet, created in 1969, is considered as the predecessor of the internet. In 1983, it transferred to TCP/IP protocol which led the evolution of modern internet.
Did you know how many people are there using the internet worldwide? The number is 3.2 billion! And the number is growing every single day.
There are several gadgets which we can use to access internet, but mobile phone is the most popular among all. Nokia 9000 model (launched in Finland, 1996) was the first mobile phone that had internet connection.
There are a lot more activities happening on the internet at every moment than you could ever imagine. On average, 2.4 billion emails (70% of which are spam) and more than 8000 tweets are sent out every second, 400 hours of contents are being uploaded on YouTube every minute, more than 5000 domain names are being registered every hour and 95 million photos are being uploaded on Instagram daily.
Can you guess how many electrons it takes to produce a single email? Well, the number is 2 billion!
In 1971, a programmer named Ray Tomlinson sent the first email in the history of internet.
Did you know the significance of '@' symbol in the email? Well, it tells that the email is being sent to a person and not to a computer.
Twitter was initially known as Twttr and on 21st March, 2006, Jack Dorsey posted the first ever tweet, which read "just setting up my twttr".
Facebook is the biggest social networking site in the world, with a number of 1.69 billion users (according to a statistic) worldwide.
Many don't know that there were several social media sites before Facebook. Six Degrees (created in 1997) was among the first social networking sites, which were available for common people.
According to some reports, 30000 websites are hacked everyday and the number is continuously growing.
Tim Berners-Lee, one of the main inventors of World Wide Web, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth.
Internet is a revolutionary creation of science and technology; something which now we can't imagine our life without.
