Of the 247 BILLION email messages sent every day, 81% are pure spam
Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939
The first popular web browser was called Mosaic and was released in 1993
Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month
Sweden is a country with the highest percentage of Internet users (75%).
The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com
The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.
While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users
Every 60 seconds 695,000 status updates, 79,364 wall posts and 510,040 comments are published on Social Networking site Facebook
6 billion hours of videos are watched every month on YouTube.
To copy the entire internet to a disc, it would take over one billion DVD’s and if you wanted to save it on the more powerful Blu-Ray discs it would take about 200 million of them.
The domain name www.youtube.com was registered on February 14, 2005…and you thought it had been there forever!
Did you know that domain names could be sold at high prices? The most expensive domain till date, ‘sex.com’ was purchased by Escom LLC at $14 million, in January 2006. Another was ‘business.com‘, which was sold to eCompanies for $7.5 million in 1999.
The average 21 year old has spent 5,000 hours playing video games, has exchanged 250,000 e-mails, instant and text messages and has spent 10,000 hours on the mobile phone.
The Web was invented in 1989 by a British physicist named Tim Berners-Lee
The supposed reason for Google.com’s sparse homepage was that its owners did not know HTML well enough that even the first versions of the homepage did not contain the submit button. The only way to make Google start searching was to hit the Return or Enter
By 2014, the value of web hosting is forecasted to be more than 73 billion dollars.
Over 17 billion devices are now connected to the internet
Amazon.com was formerly known as Cadabra.com
Up until the 14th of September, 1995, domain registration was free.
The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.
