The internet you see today is expanding faster than you can imagine. Since the dawn of the Internet, the number of websites has gone up drastically and so has the amount of data stored on the web.
Most of us can not imagine life without access to the internet for reasons ranging from social networking to doing projects and collecting information. But, not all of us know about many interesting facts about the internet and its usage. Here, we have most interesting internet facts that you’ll love.
➦Approximately 3.2 billion people use the internet. Out of this, 1.7 billion of internet users are Asians. In fact, it is estimated that approximately 200 billion emails and 3 billion Google search would have to wait if the internet goes down for a day.
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| Internet down |
➦The queries that you search for are just a minuscule percentage of the internet and is often referred to as the ‘Surface Web’. The remaining part is called ‘Deep Web’ and it is much larger than the Surface Web.
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| Deep Web |
➦You cannot even use a regular browser like Google Chrome or Firefox to access the deep web and will need something that people know as ‘Tor’ to access the ‘Deep Web’.
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| URL is mistake |
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| Domains |
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| websites in 1993 |
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| Encyclopaedia for Brickipedia |
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| Netflix vs Google |
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| Success Kid child |
➦ First webcam was created at the University Of Cambridge to monitor the Trojan coffee pot. A live 128×128 grayscale picture of the state of the coffee pot was provided as the video feed.
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| First webcam |
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| North Korea domain |
➦Interbrand invented the term “Wi-Fi” as a play on words of the term “Hi-Fi” or “High Fidelity”. However, Wi-Fi doesn’t actually stand for anything. What added to the confusion was the Wi-Fi Alliance’s use of a nonsense advertising slogan, “The Standard for Wireless Fidelity,” which lead many people to think that Wi-Fi was an abbreviation of “Wireless Fidelity”.
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| WIFi is HiFi |
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| NASA net speed |
➦With the global average Internet speed sitting at 5.6Mbps, South Korea is storming ahead as the fastest country in the world, with an average Internet speed of 26.7Mbps!
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| Mount Everest net speed |
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| Philippines Internet speed |
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| Yugoslavia to Montenegro |
➦The majority of internet traffic is not generated by humans, but by bots and malware.
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| Internet bots |
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| Netflix traffic |
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| Internet first sell |
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| Human Rights |
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| Internet's video |
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| Internet trolls |
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| Mouse Potato |
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| Internet addiction |
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| Internet causes depression |
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| China's camp |
➦China has treatment camps for internet addicts. 200 million Internet users in China are between the ages of 15 and 35. Hence, it is most like that they lose self-control. Tao Ran, director of the country’s first Internet addiction treatment clinic under a military hospital in Beijing said that 40% of those addicted to the Internet suffer from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
30,000 websites are hacked every day. Highly effective computer software programs are used by cybercriminals to automatically detect vulnerable websites which can be hacked easily.
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| Hacked Websites |
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| Email per min. |
➦Internet sends approximately 204 million emails per minute and 70% of all the emails sent are spam. 2 billion electrons are required to produce a single email.
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| Spam e-mails |
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| Americans HTML logic |
➦2010 was the year which saw a tremendous event taking place in the age of the Internet. In this year, Finland became the first country to make the internet access a legal right.
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| Finland Internet history |
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| U.S. social media |
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| Snapchat's name |
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| First online transaction |
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| Emoji |
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| Amazon first book |
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| Snapchat |
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| Pop-up ads are annoying |
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| Estonia election over Internet |
➦Approximately 9 Million adults in Britain and one-third of Italians have never used the internet. Imagine that! While there are treatment camps for internet addicts in China, a vast population of people has never used it till date.
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| Italians non-internet user |
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| Britain non-internet user |
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| Americans non-internet user |
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| India Internet user |
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| Wikipedia |
These are some most interesting and unknown facts about the Internet.
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