Mind blowing facts about internet you should definitely know!!

Facts regarding Internet:

There are just 7 people control the whole internet:

Yes, you heard it right. There are seven people assigned to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) who hold seven different keys. In the case of Catastrophe, these seven people can meet again and restore the state of Internet. There are seven more copies of the original key in case if any one of them gets misplaced or if something goes wrong.

The first ever e-mail was sent in 1971:

The email was sent by Ray Tomlinson (US programmer) who invented the email system. The “@” symbol was used to the symbol was used to signify that the email was sent to a person and not a dumb machine. However, he says that he doesn’t remember the exact message he had sent back then.

250 Billion emails are sent out daily:

The shocking numbers aren’t shown by humans. The surprising fact is that 81% of all those emails are spam which is sent using automated means. That’s a whopping 200 Billion spam mails every day.Let us tell you more about spam messages. The first spam email was sent back in 1978 for DEC System 2020. The email contained 600 recipients, and none of them were happy to receive it.

World's first ever website is still online:

The first website created was info.cern.ch, and it is still online and working fine. It is a very basic HTML site, and the page contains few lines of text. The page was written with the help of the first version of HTML.

Twitter was early known as twttr:

Twitter was first described as an SMS-based social networking and, therefore, has a character limit of 140. The first tweet was by Jack Dorsey on March 21, 2006. The tweet read “just setting up my twttr.” The site has evolved a lot in the recent years and now has more than 250 million active users. There are more than 500 million tweets shared every single day.

Garfield the cartoon was once provide its email service:

Garfield, the cartoon character was offering an email service named GMail.com. Google later acquired the service, and they renamed it to Google Mail (GMail.com) as we all know today. We don’t know if that service would/would not have been so popular if it wasn’t acquired by Google.

72 hours of video contens are uploaded on YouTube every minute:

By the time you reached this paragraph, 150+ Hours of videos have already been uploaded to YouTube. Speaking about user engagement, the massive video sharing site serves 1 Billion people every month, and an average internet user spends 4 hours every month on YouTube.Behold such stats, Google has taken massive steps to protect copyrights of individuals by scanning over 100 years of video contents every day using complex software.

There are more than 1.5 million apps on both google play store and app store:

Till June 8, 2015, 100+ billion apps were downloaded from the iTunes Store. Unfortunately, we don’t have the fresh data about Google Play. However, the recent data tells us that there have been 50+ Billion downloads on the play store till date. Both of them shares one common moral — The market for apps is as huge as websites on The internet.

51% of all internet's traffic is fake:

Humans make up 49% of the entire traffic.The rest are triggered by various bots and spamming software. No doubt, we would be having faster connectivity If they weren’t leeching on bandwidths.

Internet took just 4 years to achieve its 50 million users:

Television took 13 years to reach this. While the radio took 38 years to reach the exact amount of users. That’s awesome!