Interesting facts about the Internet

Some Interesting Facts About the Internet before it lose its freedom in India

·        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.

·        20% of the world’s population, that is over 1 billion people, is internet users.

·        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.

• ·        The term “surfing” the internet was coined in 1992 by an upstate New York librarian Jean Armour Polly, aka “Net Mom”.
• ·        The most played song on Spotify is “Wake Me Up” by Avicii.
• ·        The first tweet was sent on March 21, 2006 by Jack Dorsey. 
• ·        Mark Zuckerberg’s original Facebook profile number ID is 4.
• ·        The first YouTube video was uploaded April 23, 2005. It’s called “Me at the zoo,” and features Jawed Karim, one of the founders, at the San Diego Zoo.
• ·        A single Google query uses 1,000 computers in 0.2 seconds to retrieve an answer.
• ·        The original Space Jam website is still live.
• ·        So is the You’ve Got Mail site.
• ·        16% to 20% of the searches Google gets each day have never been Googled before.
• ·        Chinese social network Sina Weibo has 280.8 million users.
• ·        Twitter has 250 million users.
• ·        500 million tweets are sent ever day.
• ·        Tila Tequila had 1.5 million friends on Myspace.
• ·        The inventor of the modern worldwide web, Tim Berners-Lee, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth. 
• ·        Mr. Berners-Lee uploaded the first image to the internet. It is of a joke band of women from the nuclear research lab CERN. 
• ·        The first website is still online.
• ·        The most commonly searched question beginning with “What is” in 2013 was “What is twerking?”
• ·        The most expensive keyword for Google AdWords is “insurance.”
• ·        The GIF format was invented by Steve Wilke, an engineer at Compuserve in 1987.
• ·        Mr. Wilhite maintains the correct pronunciation of the term is “jiff”.
• ·        He is clearly wrong.

• ·     There are 191.3 million Tumblr blogs.

·        There are 831.1 billion Tumblr posts.
·        The most popular Tumblr is the official updates page for Minecraft.
·        Today, the Internet is 8,354 days old. Check HowOldIsTheInter.net to keep up to date.
·         “Gangnam Style” by Psy is still the most viewed YouTube video of all time. It’s been viewed over two billion times.
·        The first email was sent in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson to himself. He doesn’t remember what it said.
·         The First spam email was sent in 1978 over ARPNET by a guy named Gary Thuerk. He was selling computers.
·        The first registered domain was symbolics.com.
·        The world record for the fastest time to log into a Gmail account is 1.16 seconds.
·        The world record for fastest texter is held by a Brazilian teenager.
·         This is what Google looked like in 2004.