30+ Amazing Facts about Internet in English
Internet is called Antarjaal in Hindi. To reach the first five crore people, the telephone took 75 years, radio 38 years, television 13 years and the Internet only 4 years. It is the internet because of which you are able to read us.
Amazing Facts about Internet in English
1. As of January 2018, there are 3,812,564,450 devices connected to the Internet. In which China is at the top.
2. You will be surprised to know that Email is older than WWW.
3. If we look at the total population of a country, Sweden has the highest number of people connected to the Internet. About 75%.
4. Before September 1995, domains were registered for free.
5. In 1999, the second most searched thing on the Internet was ‘Pokemon’. Even then pornography was at number one.
6. More than 10,00,000 new domains are registered every month. As of January 2018, there are approximately 1.3 billion websites on the Internet.
7. No matter which browser you use today, Google Chrome, Safari, UC Browser etc. But in 1993, the first and famous browser of the Internet was ‘Mosaic’.
8. The first domain name to be registered on the Internet was ‘www.symbolics.com’. It was registered on March 15, 1985.
9. ‘www.web.archive.org’ is a website on which you can enter the URL of any website and see how that website looked in the past. For example, you can see how www.gazabhindi.com looked 2 years ago.
10. In Brazil, there is a search engine named ‘Ecosia’ which donates 80% of its total earnings to plant trees.
Amazing Facts about Internet
11. 25 years ago, in 1993, there were only 130 websites on the Internet. There was no Google, and to create an email account one had to pay money through ISP. ISP means Internet Service Provider.
12. The longest legal battle for a domain name has been for PETA.org. ‘People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ sued ‘People Eating Tasty Animals’ to get this name. This case went on from 1995 to 2001 and in the end ‘People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ won it.
13. Hotwired, now known as Wired.com, was the first website to use banner ads.
14. About 80% of emails sent every day are spam.
15. The ‘@’ sign was historically used as a weight measuring unit in Europe which was called ‘arroba’. Whose weight was like 25lbs (11.34 kg).
16. The first thing to be sold and bought on the Internet was ‘a bag of marijuana’.
17. ‘The Pirate Bay’ (a website) tried to buy Iceland with the hope of making it a country with no copyright laws.
18. More than 30,000 websites are hacked every day.
19. The inauguration of US President Bill Clinton in January 1997 was the first webcast of the Internet. (Webcast means Live Video).
20. When the first White House website was launched on October 21, 1994, coincidentally… it was linked to a porn website.
30+ Best Facts about Internet in English
21. ‘Ethan Zuckerman’, the man who came up with the idea of pop-up ads, still regrets that he gave birth to one of the most hated methods of advertising on the Internet.
22. This child, who is famous on the internet as ‘Success Kid’, earned so much money from the popularity of the internet that his father got a kidney transplant.
23. In Norway, all prisoners are allowed to use the Internet in their cells.
24. There is a law in South Korea according to which children under 16 years of age cannot play online games from 12 midnight to 6 am. It has been named ‘Shutdown Law’.
25. ‘Anthony Greco’ was the first person to be arrested for sending spam messages in 2005.
26. A common person agrees to so many ‘Terms and Conditions’ on the Internet in a year that if he sits down to read them and reads them for 8 hours a day, it will take about 76 days.
27. There are 6,586,013,574 searches a day on Google, out of which 15% are such that even Google has never seen before.
28. Cars.com is the most expensive domain ever sold on the Internet. Price $872 million.
29. Internet was launched for the general public in India on August 14, 1995 by VSNL (Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited).
30. The most surprising fact is that Google itself says that it has only 0.004% of the total data of the internet and the remaining 99.996% is known as ‘Deep Web’.
Who invented the Internet?
The Internet started in the world on October 29, 1969 at 10:30 pm. When ‘Charlie Klein’, a programmer of ULCA, sent two words “I” and “O” electronically to Menlo Park, California, 350 kilometers away, after which The entire system shut down but the internet started working. It was named ‘ARPANet’. After this, on January 1, 1983, ‘Vin Kerf’ and ‘Robert E. Kahn’ together invented TCP/IP protocols and ARPANet was migrated to TCP/IP. Today the Internet runs on this. Vint and Robert are also called “Fathers of the Internet”.
Who invented WWW?
The full name of WWW is ‘World Wide Web’. Some people consider WWW as the Internet but it is not so. For your information, let us tell you that WWW and Internet are two different things. WWW is only for the pages present on the Internet, whereas the Internet is much bigger than this. In simple words, without Internet WWW is nothing but without WWW Internet is many things. WWW was invented by ‘Tim Berners-Lee’ and ‘Robert Cailliau’ in 1989. But it was launched for the general public on August 6, 1991.