Today majority of people use the internet without any hassle. But if we look back twenty years from now, we can’t think of such important and massive use of the internet. The internet has really brought magic to our lives and has become an important part of our lives. Today we are going to share some interesting facts about internet which you might not know. Have a look below.
- Internet users send an approximate 204 million emails per minute
- Google uses an estimated 15 billion kWh of electricity per year
- That Email had been already around before the World Wide Web came
- China has a treatment camp for internet addicts.
- 37% of the web is porn
- An estimated 30,000 sites are hacked every day
- There is a high speed internet on the way to the mount Everest
- Still today 15 % of American adults do not use the internet
- Over 100,000 dot com domains are registered on the web every day.
- 50% of internet users will quit waiting for a video to load after 10 seconds.
- China has more internet users on mobile device than PCs.
- Philippines has the slowest internet speed in the entire Southeast Asian region with average speed 54 Mbps
- 81 percent to total emails are spam
- Doug Engelbart had made the first computer mouse in 1964, and it was made out of wood.
- One out of every 8 married couples in the USA (2011), met online.
- There are approximately 1,319,872,000 people using the Internet.
- Sweden has the highest percentage of internet users, i.e. 75% of all over the world.
- 6000 new viruses are created every month
- About 1/3 of all internet searches are for pornography
- A third of all divorce filing in U.S contained the word Facebook
- 35% of the people using online personal ads for dating are already married.
- 90% of emails contains malware.
- The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com. And the site still exists
- Over 72 hours of video are uploaded on YouTube every minute
- Before the existence of Gmail by Google, g-mail was the name of a free email service offered by Garfield
- Hon Kong is the world’s fastest internet place with an average speed of 54.1 megabits per second.
- 65% of Americans watch TV and uses the internet simultaneously.
- All prisoners in Norway have internet in their cells
- There’s an estimated 637 million websites , of which there are over 250 million blogs.
- About 1.8 billion people connect to the Internet; only 450 million of them speak English.