Patrick Mahony - Interesting Facts about Internet
According to Patrick Mahony, 30 interesting facts about the Internet are :
The first registered domain name on the Internet is symbolics.com. The first website on the Internet began on August 6, 1991, and the name of that website was "info.cern.ch" About 40% of the world's total population of 730 million i.e. about 300 million people use the Internet.
There are more than 800 million websites on the internet and more than 360 million of them are blogs. Out of 125 crore population of India, about 25 crore people (20%) use the Internet. Over 5000 new domains are registered every hour and 45 million every year on the internet In China, people with the excessive habit of the internet are treated with as a patient of mental illness. 30 thousand websites are hacked every day around the world.
Massive traffic on the internet is not by humans, but companies like Google use large chunks of internet traffic. Researchers are contemplating internet addiction as a mental illness. Britain's 9 million adult population has never used the Internet. The slowest Internet running in South-East Asian countries is the Philippines. There is internet available only with a speed of 3.54 Mbps.
There was not a single website before 1991, while more than 100 million websites are registered on the internet today and their number is increasing steadily.
Nearly 24,00,000 e-mails are sent to the Internet every second. Approximately 250,000 messages are sent in the WhatsApp app every second. About 100,000 videos are watched on YouTube in a second. The first video on YouTube was uploaded on 23 April 2005 by Javed Karim as "Me at Zoo" Javed Karim, who made Youtube The most viewed video on YouTube is "Gangnam Style", which has so far seen 2,573,367,187 views. This is a music video The most viewed video on YouTube is Charlie bit my finger - again. This is a video without music More than 60,000 searches are done on Google in every second. More than 50,000 likes are added to Facebook every second. In 2005, Facebook became 5.5 million users About 10,000 tweets are done on Twitter each second. About 2000 photos are uploaded to Instagram every second. About 1900 Skype calls are made in every second.
The first email on the Internet 1971 was sent by Ray Tomlinson. 204 million e-mails are sent every minute. 70 percent of all e-mail messages are spam. There is more than 37% porn website on the internet.