10 Interesting Facts About The Internet You
Really Need To Know
Short Bytes: 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 these interesting facts about the internet and
its usage.
From surfing to taking help from the
internet for doing projects and collecting information, today we find it
difficult to imagine our life without the internet. But not many of us know these
interesting yet important facts about the internet.
So, let’s have a quick look at it:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. ”
Gangnam Style ” by PSY is still the most viewed videos of all time with
more than 2,450,000,000 views.
6. Internet
sends approximately 204 million emails per minute and 70% of all the mails
sent are spam. 2 billion electrons are required to produce a single email.
7. The
internet requires 50 Million horsepower to keep running in the current state.
In 2005, broadband internet had a maximum speed of
2 Megabits per second. Today, 100Mbps download speeds are available in many
parts of the country. But experts warn that science has reached its limit
and fiber optics can take no more data.
8. First
tweet was done on 21st March, 2006 by Jack Dorsey and the first YouTube video
to be uploaded was “Meet At Zoo” at 8:27 p.m. on Saturday, April 23, 2005 by
Jawed Karim.
9. 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.
10. The
majority of internet traffic is not generated by humans, but by bots and
malware. According to a recent study conducted by Incapsula, 61.5% or nearly
two-thirds of all the website traffic is caused by Internet bots.
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