Internet

The Internet is a vast network that connects computers worldwide. People can share information and communicate via the Internet from any location with an Internet connection.

IoT is an abbreviation for the Internet of Things. It essentially entails connecting electronic devices (with sensors) to the internet, collecting real-time data, and carrying out actions remotely. IoT is used in a variety of industries, including transportation and supply chain, healthcare, manufacturing, warehousing, and home automation. The collected data can be saved and used to make future decisions.

81 Facts About Internet

1. On October 29, 1969, a University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) student sent the first computer-to-computer electronic mail. The ARPANET was the system used for this.

2. The first public packet-switched computer network was the United States Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET). It went into service in 1969 and was decommissioned in 1989. ARPANET's primary purpose was academic and research.

3. Every minute, more than 500 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube as of 2021.

4. On April 23, 2005, the first YouTube video was uploaded.

5. There are over 1.3 billion YouTube accounts.

6. Every day, nearly 5 billion videos are watched on YouTube.

7. Every day, over 30 million people visit YouTube.

8. There are over 10,000 YouTube videos with over one billion views.

9. The World's Longest YouTube Video: 596.5 Hours holds the Guinness World Record for being the world's longest YouTube video.

10. YouTube is available in 76 languages, reaching 95% of the internet population.

11. YouTube's annual operating and maintenance costs are $6,350,000,000.

12. The annual revenue generated by YouTube for Google is $4,000,000,000.

13. YouTube accounts for 6% of Google's ad sales revenue.

14. YouTube has paid out $1,250,000,000 to rights holders since 2007.

15. T-Series has the most subscribers on YouTube, with 224 million.

16. The current global estimate of internet users is 5.25 billion.

17. Europe has approximately 705 million internet users, ranking it second among regions in terms of global internet population. Asia leads the way with over 2 billion internet users.

18. In 2006, Google paid $1.65 billion for YouTube.

19. Every day, Google processes over 8.5 billion searches. Google Lens has received over one billion questions.

20. A single Google query uses 1,000 computers to retrieve an answer in 0.2 seconds.

21. 16 - 20% of Google's daily searches have never been Googled before.

22. Google is the world's largest search engine, with hundreds of billions of webpages totaling more than 100,000,000 gigabytes in size.

23. The value of Google search results is $160.74. (and counting).

24. The Archie Query Form, the first search engine, was introduced in 1990. It indexed FTP websites that contained download files.

25. The number of internet users in China (640 million) is more than double the population of the United States.

26. Jean Armour Polly, a librarian, coined the phrase "internet surfing" in 1992.

27. Tim Berners-Lee, one of the creators of the web as we know it, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth.

28. The song "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yabkee is the most viewed video on YouTube. Since January 13, 2017, it has been viewed over 7.9 billion times. 

29. The term "Internet of Things" is unfamiliar to 87% of people.

30. The first webcam video is from Cambridge University. The first live video feed featured a coffee maker.

31. The vast majority of internet use is performed by malware and internet bots, which account for two-thirds of all internet activity.

32. Symbolics.com was the first domain to be registered.

33. In 1978, a computer salesman named Gary Thuerk sent out the first spam email.

34. File sharing and media streaming account for more than half of all web traffic.

35. ATMs, which date back to 1974, are regarded as the first major Internet of Things objects.

36. The Amazon logo implies that you can get anything from A to Z.

37. On March 21, 2006, the first tweet was sent.

38. Twitter grew from an idea on a playground slide into a $31 billion company.

39. Twitter took more than 16 months to reach the first 600,000 accounts.

40. In 1971, the first email was sent.

41. The STS-43 Atlantis crew sent the first email from space in 1991. They used an early version of AppleLink software on a Macintosh Portable. The messages reads: "Hello Earth! Greetings from the STS-43 Crew. This is the first AppleLink from space. Having a GREAT time. Wish you were here... send cryo and RCS! Hasta la vista, baby... we'll be back."

42. The first commercial email client was Hotmail. Hotmail, however, was not the first email management programme.

43. There are over 3.9 billion email accounts in use. At the same time, there are over 5.5 billion email accounts, implying that many individuals and businesses use multiple addresses.

44. Every day, an average of 98 emails are sent and received.

45. The world record for fastest Gmail login time is 1.16 seconds.

46. The first website (http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html) is still available.

47. China will have over 1 billion active internet users by February 2022. It is followed by India, which has 658 million users, and the United States, which has 307 million users.

48. There are over 1.92 billion websites on the internet.

49. There are currently 198.4 million active websites on the internet.

50. Every day, 90,000 websites are hacked. WordPress is used to build nearly 83% of hacked websites.

51. WordPress powers 36.2% of all websites.

52. English is by far the most popular language on the internet. The internet is written in 25.9% English, 19.4% Chinese, and 8% Spanish.

53. With over 2.8 billion internet users, Asia is the continent with the most internet users in the world. Europe comes in second with less than half of this figure, with just under 700 million internet users.

54. In Denmark, Iceland, the UAE, Kuwait, and Qatar, 98-99% of people have access to the internet.

55. According to studies, more than a third of internet users are between the ages of 25 and 34 as of December 2019. They are closely followed by the 35-44 age group, which accounts for 19% of global internet traffic statistics.

56. Chrome will control more than 65% of the global browser market by August 2020. It is followed by Safari, which accounts for 16.82% of all internet users worldwide, and Firefox, which ranks third with 4.09%.

57. Over 4.1 billion email accounts are registered by internet users worldwide as of 2021, 107 million more than in 2019. This figure is expected to rise by more than 4.3 billion by the end of 2023. It does not imply that each email is managed by a single person, as most people have multiple email addresses.

58. 4.32 billion people use mobile devices to access the internet.

59. Every day, approximately 7 million blog posts are published.

60. In 2021, there will be 4.2 billion active social media users.

61. Today, 47% of internet users worldwide use an ad-blocker.

62. The term "surfing" was first used alongside the term "internet" in 1992.

63. The word was coined by Jean Armour Polly, an upstate New York librarian. She was also called "Net Mom."

64. At least 1,200 petabytes of data can be stored on the internet.

65. Tim Berners-Lee is dubbed the "Father of the Web."

66. He was also the first person to upload an image on the internet. It shows a joke about a group of women from CERN, a nuclear research centre.

67. The inventor's greatest regret is the use of the double slash "//" in web URLs. Berners-Lee admitted that the small addition was unnecessary.

68. Cybercrime is the world's second most reported economic crime. 73% of all known cyberattacks are motivated by economic factors, with over 40% directed against small enterprises.

69. Yahoo held the record for the greatest data leak. In 2013, nearly 3 billion Yahoo users' birth dates, phone numbers, and security questions were compromised.

70. Cybercriminals frequently target passwords that are either weak or stolen. 81% of all recorded cyberattacks used unsuccessful, thus stolen, passwords.

71. Private browsing is not as "private" as you may believe. Google's Incognito mode is a popular example. According to a USA Today research, such modes simply erase your own computer of visited sites and saved information. Your history, however, remains available to your Internet Service Provider (ISP).

72. You can access the internet safely if you use secure connections from specific websites. If you see a padlock in the left corner of your address bar, it implies that the site-PC connection is secure. You might also click on the symbol to see which data-caching code or 'cookies' are being used by the site.

73. The "cookies" that you see on websites leave a "crumb trail" that leads back to your IP address. It is a method for websites to track website activity on your computer in order to make decisions about which adverts to show you or to make future log-ins easier. While it reveals your surfing habits to the websites you visit, it simply traces back to your IP address rather than your full identity.

74. No amount of wiped browser history or cleared-out cookies will totally erase your internet footprints. Every time your computer views a website, the websites see your IP address. The good news is that it does not reveal your identity. You can still hide behind Virtual Private Networks, or VPNs.

75. Unidentified words can be replaced with an asterisk in Google lyrics. When you can't complete a sentence to search for titles or lyrics, this strategy can help you get more accurate results.

76. The WinPlay3 was the first MP3 player to be released. In 1995, real-time software was released, allowing users to encode and playback MP3s on their computers.

77. SixDegrees.com was the first publicly available social network. Unfortunately, it did not endure long, closing in 1999 after being founded in 1997. It was one of the earliest sites that allowed users to share photographs and information.

78. Search adverts are the most common sort of digital advertisement today. Marketers increased their spending by 12% in 2018, reaching a total of $113 billion.

79. Cars.com holds the record for the most popular domain name.

80.  Its value has risen to $872 million.

81. Godaddy is the largest domain name registrar on the internet. Godaddy owns 49.98% of all existing domain names as of December 2018.