Top 35 Amazing Internet Facts | Amazing Facts 4U
- Amazingly Al Gore, Vice President of USA invented the word “Internet”.
- Emails started in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson and the first e-mail was sent written entirely in UPPER CASE.
- Tim Berners-Lee coined the phrase “World Wide Web” in 1990.
- The amazing fact is that while it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.
- The first domain name ever registered was symbolics.com. Business.com is the most expensive domain name sold for $ 7.5 million.
- Amazingly facebook paid $8.5 million to acquire the domain name ‘fb.com’.
- The fact is that a single individual Dr. Lieven Van Neste owns over 200000 domain names.
- Up until the 14th of September, 1995, domain registration was free.
- Domain names are being registered at an amazing rate of one million names every month.
- When Montenegro became an independent nation from Yugoslavia, its Internet domain name amazingly changed from .yu to .me.
- Amazingly Microsoft threatened 17-year-old Mike Rowe with a lawsuit after the young man launched a website named MikeRoweSoft.com.
- Mosaic was the first popular web browser which was released in 1993.
- U.S. President Bill Clinton’s inauguration in January 1997 was the first to be webcast.
- The amazing fact is that Google uses over 1 million computers for its operation and handles over 1 billion search requests per day.
- An E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
- One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.
- Amazingly only 10% of the web pages are used by search engines.
- More than 80% of web pages are in English.
- About 1.8 billion people connect to the Internet, only 450 million of them speak English.
- Amazingly 15% of American adults do not use the Internet.
- Every minute, 10 hours of videos are uploaded on Youtube.
- Of the 250 billion email messages sent every day, an amazing 81% are pure spam.
- Amazingly over 6,000 new computer viruses are released every month.
- The very first youtube video was uploaded on April 23rd, 2005.
- The longest video on YouTube is amazing 596 hours according to uploader MoldytoasterMedia.
- The world’s fastest Internet connection belongs to Sigbritt, a 75-year-old Swedish woman and is an amazing 40 Gigabit/second! she can just download a full high-definition DVD in just two seconds!
- The first tweet on Twitter in 2006 read “just setting up my Twttr”! in the site’s infancy, the social network was called “Twttr”.
- Amazingly Emma Watson is the most dangerous thing you can search on the Internet. About eight out of every ten search results are malicious links.
- Hackers in 1999 discovered an amazing flaw that allowed logging into any Hotmail account with the password ‘eh.’
- All Internet is 4 exabytes of information. By the way, 1 exabyte = 1000 petabytes; 1 petabyte = 1000 terabytes; 1 terabyte = 1000 gigabytes. Each year, this amount is doubled.
- The country with the highest percentage of net users in Sweden ( 75 %).
- The amazing fact is that if you weighed all the electrons used to store the information on the internet, it would weigh less than a chicken’s egg.
- China has treatment camps for Internet addicts.
- Amazingly 30,000 websites are hacked every day.
- The fact is there’s high-speed Internet on the way right up to the top of Mount Everest.
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