The Internet has quietly become an integral part of our daily lives. Thanks to it, we can access information, communicate, have fun and learn. Since its inception, the Internet has come a long way and has become a global network connecting billions of people around the world. In this article, we invite you to dive into the world of the World Wide Web and learn interesting facts about it. And if your child loves computers, we look forward to seeing them in class at Progkids!
Interesting facts about the Internet
Here are some fascinating facts about the Internet that will help you better understand this incredible technology.
First website
The first website was created by Tim Berners-Lee, the official inventor of the World Wide Web. He launched it on August 6, 1991. The site contained one page with information about the WWW project and a brief instruction on how to create web pages. By the way, it still works!
Almost the entire planet is on the Internet
The world has more than 4.9 billion Internet users, which is about 63% of the world's population.
Email is older than the Internet
In 1971, Ray Tomlinson sent the world's first email. This happened a few years before the Internet was born. The pioneer programmer also came up with the idea of using the @ symbol to separate the username and domain.
A ton and a small cart
There are more than 1.8 billion websites on the Internet, but there are significantly fewer active websites — about 200 million.
Bottomless YouTube
More than 500 hours of video content are uploaded to YouTube every minute. This makes the platform one of the largest in the world in terms of content.
Search giant
Google processes more than 3.5 billion searches every day!
On the waves of the Internet
The term “web surfing” was coined by librarian and writer Gene Armour Polley. This happened in 1992 when she first used it in an article about using the Internet. Surfing the web involves exploring the Web at ease, when a user goes from one page to another, following links and studying a variety of content.
:-)
This icon was the first emoticon sent via the Internet in 1982 by its creator, programmer Scott Fallman.
The ubiquitous network
You can even use the Internet on Mount Everest!
The Internet was invented by... a knight!
Yes, in 2004, Tim Berners-Lee, known as the “Father of the Internet”, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
Canned SPAM meat
Everyone knows that the term “SPAM” is used to refer to unsolicited, massively sent messages on the Internet. However, few people know that this word has become firmly entrenched in the vocabulary of Internet users thanks to... canned food!
Yes, SPAM was originally a brand of canned meat from Hormel Foods. In 1970, British comedy group Monty Python released a sketch in which café goers see an intrusive “SPAM” on every menu item.
The story of the first webcam
In the early 1990s, a group of researchers from the University of Cambridge worked in a computer science lab. They ran into a problem: the coffee maker across the building was often empty when someone came in for coffee. To avoid disappointment and unnecessary gestures, they decided to create a system that would allow them to monitor coffee levels remotely. This is how the first black and white webcam appeared.
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