15 Interesting facts about the internet
- The internet was originally designed to be a secure communication network for the US military.
- Of the 7 billion people on earth now 2.4 billion people use the internet.
- Over 8.7 billion computers are connected to the internet in 2014
- Every minute 72 hours of YouTube videos are uploaded
- 19% of married couple meet through the intent
- The internet is 8731 days old check it out http://howoldistheinter.net/
- WordPress is the most widely used CMS system and power approximately 75 million websites.
- The first ever email was sent in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson to himself. However he can’t remember what he said.
- The first spam email was sent in 1978 by a man called Gary Thuerk and he was selling computers.
- Facebook was original called thefacebook
- 47% of all internet users have Facebook
- 38% of all mobile traffic is from mobile devices such as phone and tablets
- There are apparently 7 people in the world who possess the “key” to the internet. In an event of a major catastrophe and the internet shuts down these key holders together be able to reboot an integral part of the system.
- Russel Seitz a physicistdone some number crunching and predicts all the electrons moving around the internet weigh up to approximately 50 grams.
- The first website to ever go live was developed by Tim Berners-Lee’sthe inventor of the World Wide Web. And here it is http://info.cern.ch/