Internet facts!
Hey it’s my first long article ever I wrote.Internet turned 30 yesterday.
Everyone now has internet on their mobile, broadband and the majority of us to use the Internet more than we watch TV nowadays. Everyone and their Dada and Dadi are also on Facebook , and many of us have some kind of embarrassing moment enshrined on Facebook. But how much do you really know about the Internet Saga>>>>>
Let’s take a look at some awesome facts.
1. 35.6% of internet users are Asian.
2. With an average of 389 million of internet surfers each month, Asia is the largest internet crowd among other world regions.
3. In North America, 70 out of 100 surf the Internet.
4. 1 billion users around the globe are surfing the Internet every month.
5. 19% of internet users are from United States (210,080,067 mil).
6. Around 18 countries still doesn’t have an Internet connection.
7. The technology behind the Internet began back in the 1960′s at MIT. The first message ever to be transmitted was LOG.. Why? The user had attempted to type LOGIN, but the network crashed after the enormous load of data of the letter G. It was to be a while before Facebook would be developed. Here is the first webpage looks like this>>>> Worlds first webpage.
8. The first emoticon is commonly credited to Kevin Mackenzie in 1979, but was a rather simple -) and didn’t really look like a face. 3 years later, :-)
9. Although the MP3 standard was invented in 1991, it wouldn’t be until 1998 that the first music file-sharing service Napster, would go live, and change the way the Internet was used forever.
10. Google estimates that the Internet today contains about 5 million terabytes of data (1TB = 1,000GB), and claims it has only indexed a paltry 0.04% of it all! You could fit the whole Internet on just 200 million Blu-Ray disks.
11. The south Korea's education system is technologically advanced and it is the world's first country to bring high-speed fiber-optic broadband internet access to every primary and secondary school nationwide.
12. South Korea has the fastest Internet download speeds in the world, with an average download speed of 17.5 Mbit/s.
13. Google's multibillion-dollar infrastructure allows the company to index 20 billion web pages a day. To handle more than 3 billion daily search queries. To conduct millions of ad auctions in real time. To offer free email storage to 425 million Gmail users. To zip millions of YouTube videos to users every day. To deliver search results before the user has finished typing the query. In the near future, when Google releases the wearable computing platform called Glass, this infrastructure will power its visual search results.
14. Google's data centers consume up to 1.5 percent of all the electricity in the world.
15. 11 account every second in twitter.
16. Over 1.13 trillion likes since launch in February 2009 in Facebook. Wow!
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