Facts About Internet

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1 – The internet was invented in 1969.

2 – There are over 1.88 billion websites on the internet.

3 – A website’s URL (or address) can be found in its HTML code and will usually end with “.com”, “.org”, or “.edu”. In 2005, there were 1 million domain names registered and by 2013, there were more than 200 million domain names registered.

4 – When you surf the web, your IP address is visible to other users. One of the best ways to protect your personal information online is by using strong passwords on every site you visit.

5 – The internet is the most valuable resource we have – it’s a medium that connects people to each other and to information, but it also isolates us from others in our physical communities.

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6 – Over 95% of all data traffic on the internet is video!

7 – Most people use their phones, tablets, and computers to browse the internet instead of buying a computer monitor because they’re cheaper and more convenient.

8 – Who invented the Internet? This is credited to computer scientists – Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn, though Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989.

Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web with hypertext documents and links between them to share information across the web more easily.

9 – It took about 10 years for people to start using it because they didn’t know how or didn’t want to use it.

10 – In 1981, the first email was sent between two computers but didn’t become popular until the 1990s when it became easier to use.

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11 – As of January 2017, there were 3 million apps available in Apple’s App Store and 2 million apps available in Google Play store combined.

12 – Internet usage increases by about 20% every year.

13 – It’s estimated that the average person spends 6 hours per day online – that’s almost an entire workday!

14 – It was originally created in the 1960s to connect universities and research institutions.

15 – The name Google comes from the misspelling of the mathematical term GOOGOL (which is the number one followed by 100 zeroes). The original founders accidentally misspelled it on a check they wrote.

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16 – The first computer mouse was created in 1964 by Doug Engelbart and Rene Sommer.

17 – There are now 4.57 billion Internet users as of January 2021. This is half of global population!

18 – Facebook is the most popular social media network – it has close to 3 billion active monthly users.

19 – The biggest e-commerce retailer in USA is Amazon, which controls almost 50% of the current market.

20 – 100,000 websites are hacked every single day, usually because these websites are running an outdated version of WordPress.

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21 – The top 10 websites are as follows: Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Baidu, Wikipedia, Yandex and Yahoo.

22 – Google was invented on 4 September 1998. YouTube was invented 14 February 2005. Facebook was invented February 2004, Twitter was invented 21 March 2006 and Instagram was invented October 6, 2010.

23 – In 1995, only one percent of people in the world had internet access.

24 – Google’s search engine is used for about 90% of all web searches worldwide.

25 – Two distant computers were connected for the first time in 1965 and the first network of four computers were linked in 1969.

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