Most of us can not imagine life without access to the internet for reasons ranging from social networking to doing projects and collecting information. But, while not all of us know about many interesting facts about the internet and its usage.
The internet is a fascinating, wild, and phenomenal creation, and is undoubtedly the most marvelous of modern marvels. Back in the 1960’s, the internet was a military-funded experiment that sought to connect computers to one another.
So meanwhile Here, we bring to you a list of most interesting internet facts that you’ll love.
Interesting facts about the Internet
1. 30,000+ websites are hacked every day.
2. Twitter was earlier known as Twttr.
3. Especially relevant, 72 hours of video contents are uploaded on YouTube every minute.
4. There are more than 1.5 million apps on both Google Play and also on iTunes store.
5. Meanwhile Around 80% of the images available on the internet are of naked women.
6. Also the internet took just 4 years to reach its first 50 million users.
7. 7 people control the whole internet.
8. Most noteworhty, Facebook tracks and also records all the websites you visit while you’re logged in.
9. 3.1 Billion out of 7 Billion people on earth is online already. Also InternetLiveStats (ILS) monitors the live state of the internet, and as of Sept 5, 2015, there are 3,197,308,895 users on the web. While this is expected to grow even more by the year 2020.
10. Facebook boasts of a massive 1.44 Billion users. Also approximately 18% of the world’s population is available on Facebook. Therefore there were 968 million daily active users on average in June 2015. While the most shocking stat is that almost 844 million of them were mobile daily active users. Also Statistics suggest that around 50% of Internet users are on Facebook.
11. The first ever email was sent in 1971. Also The email was sent by Ray Tomlinson (US programmer) who invented the email system. Most noteworthy The “@” symbol was used to the symbol was used to signify that the email was sent to a person and not a dumb machine. However, While Tomlinson says that he doesn’t remember the exact message he had sent back then.
12. Meanwhile 250 Billion Emails are sent out daily. No, perhaps these shocking numbers aren’t triggered by humans. Most noteworthy the surprising fact is that 81% of all those emails are spam which is sent using automated means. Also That’s a whopping 200 Billion spam emails every day. In addition Let us tell you more about spam messages. Also The first spam email was sent back in 1978 for DEC System 2020. Meanwhile The email contained 600 recipients, and also none of them were happy to receive it.
13. Another amazing fact is the internet requires 50 Million horsepower to keep running in the current state.
14. The world’s first website is still alive and kicking. Although Website does not come close to being glamorous because all that’s present is text and hyperlinks but also the fact that it is still running is hence pretty impressive.
Interesting facts about the Internet