Monday, March 6, 2017

Fun Facts about the Internet

First webcam was created at the University Of Cambridge to monitor the Trojan coffee pot. A live 128×128 grayscale picture of the state of the coffee pot was provided as the video feed.

Internet sends approximately 204 million emails per minute and 70% of all the mails sent are spam. 2 billion electrons are required to produce a single email.  (Imagine if you could eat Internet spam we could feed the world!)

The internet requires 50 Million horsepower to keep running in the current state.

In 2005, broadband internet had a maximum speed of 2 Megabits per second. Today, 100Mbps download speeds are available in many parts of the country. But experts warn that science has reached its limit and fiber optics can take no more data.

First tweet was done on 21st March, 2006 by Jack Dorsey and the first YouTube video to be uploaded was “Meet At Zoo” at 8:27 p.m. on Saturday, April 23, 2005 by Jawed Karim.

The majority of internet traffic is not generated by humans, but by bots and malware. According to a recent study conducted by Incapsula, 61.5% or nearly two-thirds of all the website traffic is caused by Internet bots.

Google estimated in 2010, that the data size of the Internet is 5 million Terabytes, 61% from videos, and growing rapidly. Google has the largest index of the Internet out of any company, but claims to have scanned only 0.004% of the total.

There are approximately 4,200 new domain names registered every hour, or around 37 million per year.

Facebook has an estimated 1.2 Billion active users. 
To put that into perspective, there’s about 7 billion people on Earth. 17% of humans are on Facebook.

The first ever email was sent in 1971 by Ray Tomilinson, the US programmer who invented the email system. 

The “@” symbol was used to signify that the message was sent to a person instead of a machine.

OK more to come hoped you enjoyed this!!!

Joe Rossini

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