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| Interesting Facts About Internet That you Don’t Know |
Hi guys!
I am back with an amazing post about Internet.
Yes, I will be sharing some interesting facts about Internet that you don’t know. About half the population of the world is now using Internet. From Google to Facebook, YouTube to Yahoo, many of you have used it and have major contribution to the Internet.
Interesting Facts About Internet
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1. The internet and the www (World Wide Web) are not the same thing. The internet is a massive network of computers whereas the www (World Wide Web) is a means of accessing and sharing information across this massive network of computers.
2. The internet reach 50 million users in just 5 years. It took Television (TV) 13 years and radio 38 years to reach that audience.
3. About 20% of the world’s population, i.e. over 1 billion people, are internet users.
4. Do you know that over 8.7 Billion machines (Smartphones, tablets, desktops, servers, GPS, hotspots, etc.) are connected to the internet.
5. Over 3 million e-mails are sent every second.
6. The average time of the person for surfing internet is around 51 minutes in a day.
7. The term URL for a web address stands for Uniform Resource Locater.
8. Around 72 Hours of YouTube Video Is Uploaded at every 60 Seconds.
9. German language is the second most used content language on the Internet.
10. Over 78% of North Americans Use the Internet and 75% of Swedish people use the internet
making them the country with the largest percentage of internet users in the world.
11. Google went down for 5 minutes on August 2013 and as a result took 40% of all internet traffic with it.
12. The best internet connected cities are in South Korea and Japan.
13. According to Russel Seitz is a physicist, the Internet weighs as much as one strawberry.
14. The Internet’s 5 Million Terabytes Data (in digital form) weighs less than a grain of Sand.
15. 1.7 Billion Of the Internet’s Users Are in Asia with major internet users in India, China, Japan, and South Korea.
16. Could you belief that around $2.1 trillion a year is spent online. Out of which online dating generates over $1 Billion each year.
17. Could you belief that it takes 2 Billion electrons to produce a single E-mail Message.
18. The internet speed on the International Space Station (ISS) is faster than the average internet speed in the country Australia.
19. According to Google, it had only indexed only 0.004% of all data on the Internet as on 2010.
20. The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) was 1st published to the internet in the year 1990.
21. Do you know, the Internet requires approximately 50 Million Horsepower in Electricity.
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