Incredibly Interesting Internet Facts

We all love an interesting fact so the team at Dorset Tech have put together some of the more interesting ones all related to the internet.

• The internet was invented over 40 years ago in a beer garden over a drink. They do say the best ideas come to us when we least expect it.
• Wireless internet was created in 1990 and not recently as some people think. Wi-Fi is over 30 years old now.
• Wi-Fi is now the biggest transmitter of communication around the world.
• Ethernet – the most commonly used wired internet is over 50 years old having been invented in the 1970’s by Bob Metcalfe
• In 2016 there was around 7 billion people living in the world and over 23 billion devices were connected to the internet.
• China leads the way with the most internet usage.
• Google is ranked as the most popular website worldwide.
• Almost half of the internet users on Earth are from Asia.
• August, 1991 is the month the first website was published live.
• Tim Berners-Lee is known as the father of the web as he was the first person to upload an image to the internet.
• The first email ever medical androlic sent has the same sender and receiver in 1971. The sender cannot remember what he put in the email.
• Wednesday is the best day for sending emails and Thursday is the worst.
• The first ever spam email was sent in 1978 and its aim was to sell computers.
• The 2^nd most reported crime in in the world is cybercrime.
• NASA has an internet speed of 91 gigabits per second, 13,000 times faster then the average user in the United States.
• Seven people hailed from around the world have the power to restart the internet in case of a world shattering emergency.
• The webcam was initially invented to check on a coffee pot.
• The first browser that Microsoft released was Cello, released in 1993 and used by The Cornell Law School.
• Microsoft bought Hotmail a year after it was launched in 1996. It then went on to become Outlook.
• Google went live in 1998 and since then it has expanded into social networking, video sharing and cloud storage as well as inventing the Android operating system.
• Facebook was initially invented for Harvard students. It was created in 2004.
• Twitter was actually a Plan B strategy but became popular for a group of business men who launched Odeo which failed to make an impact.
• The most visited social media platform in the world is Facebook with over 2.2 billion users, then it’s YouTube and then WhatsApp.
• In 2019 the most popular searched phrase on Google was Disney plus.
• On average Google has 7-10 billion search requests.
• Google Chrome is the most popular browser with over 64% market share.
• In the United States Amazon is responsible for over 5% of retail sales.
• The domain name cars.com sold for 872 million dollars.
• The first ever video published to YouTube was uploaded in April, 2005.
• The most digitally photographed food is Pizza.
• Before the internet came along LOL meant lots of love now it means laugh out loud.
• Taiwan has the fastest internet speed at 85.02Mbps.