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There are many facts about the internet but today, we’re going to show
you some of the most interesting ones. The history of the internet dates
back to the 1950s with the development of electronic computers. However,
the anniversary of the World Wide Web, the modern day internet, started
with British computer scientists Tim Berners-Lee. The creation of this
new internet drastically changed the world, revolutionizing media,
dating, entertainment, and so on. With the anniversary of the internet,
we thought we’d take a look back and see how far we’ve come. Interested
in how the internet has grown over the years? These are some surprising
facts about the internet you probably didn’t know.
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In March 1989, the first website went live. Believe it or not, it’s
still in existence today and it’s looking just as barebones as it likely
did back then.
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It’s estimated by Radicati Group that
around 247 billion emails are sent every day. However, about 90% of them
are SPAM and viruses. So, be careful what emails you open.
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Who would have known that Twitter would explode onto the world stage,
shaking up the media as we know it? Well, the very first Twitter post
was on March 21, 2006 by Jack Dorsey. He wrote, “Just setting up my
twttr.” Riveting.
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We all know YouTube is a massive online media site, helping bring rise
to a new type of celebrity like PewDiePie. But maybe you didn’t know
that 300 hours of video are uploaded to the media site every minute.
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With 632 million internet users in China, many believe 23 million of
them are addicted to it. So, in an effort to curb the addiction, China
created boot camps to turn their children around. They consider anyone
spending six hours or more a day on the internet to be addicted to it.
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While you might assume internet traffic is mostly people going from
website to website, it’s really not. In fact, most of the internet’s
traffic is bots designed by engineers to do automated tasks.
Unfortunately, many of them are also quite malicious.
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Over the years, Twitter has become a massive phenomenon with millions of
users tweeting all sorts of things from news, opinions, and even what
they’re eating. It’s estimated that 500 million Tweets are sent every
day.
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Using sophisticated software, cybercriminals scour the web for weakly
protected websites they can easily hack. It’s estimated 30,000 websites
are hacked every day.
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While the U.S. has 88% of their population on the internet, Norway has
98%, coming close to the top of all countries with most of their country
being connected. |