Internet - is not just the kind of information and communication platform, it is something more. What affects our lives, sometimes it even controls. In view of this fact, we decided to gather some interesting facts about the Internet
Internet was established in 1960 as part of the US defense forces.
If Facebook were a country, it would be on the 3rd place in terms of population.
Monthly social users. Facebook network spread 3 billion photos.
In the first place, for the dissemination of Internet access are Bermuda. Moreover, it should be noted the interesting fact that such a developed country as Japan - is only 22 place.
Despite the huge number of users, 80% of the world population does not use the Internet.
Search engine Google each month handles 35 billion queries.
When Larry Page and Sergey Brin came up with the name of the new search engine, they wanted to express it in a huge amount of information that the system can handle. Their colleague suggested that the word "googol" - so in mathematics is the number of units of a hundred, followed by zeros. Then he checked the domain name on employment and find that it is free, registered. And in the writing of the words he had made a mistake: instead of the correct 'googol.com' introduced 'google.com', but Larry svezheizobretёnnoe word liked and was confirmed as the title.
The main reason that the Google home page has a naked appearance, is the fact that the founders of Google ... just do not know the HTML markup languages, and want to quickly make a simple interface. In fact, they even for a long time could not make the button «Submit». Send a search query can be just pressing the Enter key on the keyboard. In fact, the page consisted of one search string only.
Week tape news site contains as much information as you know in a lifetime a man who lived in the 18th century.
Internet - a 4 ekzobayta information (36 in 19-degree bytes). The amount of information is doubling every 2 years.
Every 8th couple met through the internet
Each 10-pair diverges from the love of a spouse "to chat with friends on the Internet"
About 70 domains registered on the Internet every minute
Every minute bloggers leave about 1,500 new posts and open about 60 new blogs.
The average person spends about 51 minutes per session on the Internet.
- The average rate is reduced to 25 hours per month online.
Mean time web-browsing is approximately 45 seconds.
40% of users are sitting at the computer while the TV is in turn looking at the computer monitor, the TV screen.
More than 80% of the images on the web - naked women and pornography is dedicated to one-third of all queries in search engines.
About 70% of Internet users - men
Porn sites often perform advanced platforms for implementing and testing new Internet technologies, moving forward so the entire industry.
Internet crimes are committed every 10 seconds around the world
The history of the first smiley pretty easy starts. The first emotion that was passed in 1979 by electronic means belongs to Kevin McKenzie, and it looked like this: "-)". She was not very similar to the person, so three years later Scott Fehlman created ": -)". Smile, which has become the norm.
The first webcam was tested in a computer lab at Cambridge University. Its sole purpose was to control individual coffee makers, and a warning about ending coffee.
One of the first items sold at auction eBay - has become a broken laser pointer for $ 14.83.
The largest internet café in the world located in New York. It opened in 2000 and was equipped with 630 computers.
Among all the 247 billion emails sent every day, 81% - spam.