20/06/2016
Internet turns 46: Some amazing facts you probably did not know
On October 29, 1969, the first electronic mail (email) was sent from one computer to another, it is also celebrated as the birth of computer. The message was a simple 'lo' which basically stood for 'login' but only the first two letters delivered as the computers had crashed. This day is also celebrated as International Internet Day.
Some incredible facts on Internet you should definitely know:
The term 'surfing' the internet was coined in 1992 by a New York librarian, Jean Armour Polly, who is also known as 'Net Mom'
A single Google query uses 1,000 computers in 0.2 seconds to retrieve an answer
16 to 20 percent of queries that get asked every day have never been asked before
Mark Zuckerberg was the first person on Facebook with ID Number 4. The first three accounts were just the testing accounts
Today, more than 294 billion emails are sent each day
90 percent of all the emails that are sent every day is regarded as spam
The first email was sent by Ray Tomlinson to himself in 1971
There are 3.6 billion email accounts in the world today
30,000 websites are hacked every day
The majority of internet traffic is generated by web robots like Google and Malware
Over 10,000 new dot com (.com) domains are registered on the web every day
The first YouTube video was uploaded April 23, 2005. The video is called 'Me at the zoo' and features Jawed Karim who is one of the founders at the San Diego Zoo
The inventor of the modern World Wide Web is Tim Berners-Lee
The Internet requires over 50 million horsepower in electricity
It takes over 2 billion electrons to produce a single email message
Moving electrons on the internet weigh approximately 50 grams
It is said that soon, 'Internet Addiction' will be added in the list of mental disorders.
