interesting facts
- A single Google query uses 1,000 computers in 0.2 seconds to retrieve an answer.
- 16% to 20% of the searches Google gets each day have never been Googled before.
- The Internet’s first website went online on Aug. 6, 1991.
- The internet is not the web and the web is not the internet. Don’t get them twisted like most people do, especially not if you’re in Silicon Valley. The internet was a thing long before the web and the web wouldn’t exist without the internet. The internet, the roots of which can be traced as far back to the invention of the modem in 1958, is a massive infrastructure that bridges millions of computers throughout the globe. The World Wide Web is a vast system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed on the internet.
- Billions of people surf the web. Of the world’s 7.1 billion people, an estimated 2.4 billion people go online today. That’s 37.7 percent of the world’s total population. About six out of seven people across the globe have internet access. Approximately 70 percent of internet users surf the web every day.
- Americans rock the web the most. Users in the U.S. account for 78.6 percent of global web usage, trailed by Australia (67.6 percent), Europe (63.2 percent), Latin America/Caribbean (42.9 percent), Middle East (40.2 percent), Asia (25.7 percent) and Africa (15.6). Surprisingly, some 24 nations remain completely offline.
- The inventor of the modern world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth.
- The first website is still online.
- Today ( 24th of august 2014) the Internet is 8419 days old. Check HowOldIsTheInter.net to keep up to date.
- The first email was sent in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson to himself. He doesn’t remember what it said.
- The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com on March 15, 1985. Now it serves as a historic site.
- The world record for fastest typist is held by a Brazilian teenager.