Facts Of Internet

1. The first email was sent in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson (pictured). It was a test mail that he sent to himself from one computer to another. About the message text, he later said: "The test messages were entirely forgettable...Most likely the first message was QWERTYIOP or something similar."

  

2.On an average day, 12 to 16 percent of Google queries have never been asked before. 

3.On average, cyber criminals compromise around 30,000 websites every day.

4.Over 100,000 new dot com domains are registered on the internet every day.

5.Around 90 percent of all the emails sent around the world daily are spam.

6.On July 1, 2010, Finland made internet access a legal right for its citizens, becoming the first country to do so.

7.As of Aug. 3, 2016, there are more than 1.06 billion live websites on the internet.

8.The World Wide Web turned 10,000 days old on July 28, 2016.

9.Twitter, on the other hand, has around 313 million monthly users and generates 500 million tweets per day.

10.As of May 2016, leading Chinese social networking site Sina Weibo had 261 million active users.

11.A group of 14 persons belonging to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) meet four times every year as part of the "Key Ceremony." Hailing from various countries, each of then holds the key to controlling the way we navigate the internet, as ICANN is responsible for assigning numerical internet addresses to websites and computers and translating them into the normal web addresses that people type into their browsers. The group's job is to verify that each web address is unique and authentic, to prevent proliferation of fake addresses. 

12.A single Google search engine query uses hundreds (or more) servers to throw up results in just 0.2 seconds.

13.With satellite access, there is no part of the world that is not connected to the internet, though governments of some regions have imposed strict regulations over its use.

14.China leads the world in terms of the total number of internet users, with over 721 million people in 2016. Norway, however, has the highest percentage of its population using the internet at 95.05 percent.

15.As of April 2016, Facebook had around 1,590 million monthly active users.

16.At present, almost 40 percent of the world's total population is connected to the internet.

17.The concept of the web camera originated in 1993 in Cambridge University where it was used to monitor the fullness, or otherwise, of a coffee pot.

18.Pornography continues to be the major source of the internet traffic. One-third of all internet searches are porn-related and a staggering 65 percent of images posted on the net are of nude women

19.Around 19 percent of couples worldwide met for the first time because of the internet.

20.It took the internet just four years to reach the 50-million-user mark. The television took 13 years, the radio 38 years and the telephone 75 years to achieve the same goal.

21.Your search engine results are just the tip of the iceberg and are called the "Surface Web." There are millions of secret unindexed websites that require special browsers to access; they are called the "Deep Web" and the pool is at least 500 times larger than Surface Web.

22.Humans make up only about 40 percent of the Internet traffic; the rest is made by bots: software applications that perform tasks automatically. Of these, there are "good" bots, including search engines and analytical tools, and "bad" bots, including the ones that generate spam. 

23.(Pictured L-R) Berners-Lee and the computer used by him at CERN to devise WWW.

On Aug. 6, 1991, British scientist Tim Berners-Lee at CERN put online the world's first website, which was created to introduce the World Wide Web (WWW) to newcomers on the internet. The site's address was info.cern.ch, and the first webpage address was http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html. The webpage is still active.