We all use the internet on a daily basis. Today the Internet is a major component of our life. The Internet is one of the most important things that approx every person uses his personal/professional life. 

Moreover using the Internet is a very technical thing and every person doesn't know how to properly use it. Let's discuss some facts of the internet that you probably don't know. 

Before we start we have to understand the actual meaning of the internet.

The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a network of networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), electronic mail, telephony, and file sharing.

Origin of the internet :

The origins of the Internet date back to the development of packet switching and research commissioned by the United States Department of Defense in the 1960s to enable time-sharing of computers. The primary precursor network, the ARPANET, initially served as a backbone for the interconnection of regional academic and military networks in the 1970s. The funding of the National Science Foundation Network as a new backbone in the 1980s, as well as private funding for other commercial extensions, led to worldwide participation in the development of new networking technologies, and the merger of many networks. The linking of commercial networks and enterprises by the early 1990s marked the beginning of the transition to the modern Internet,[3] and generated a sustained exponential growth as generations of institutional, personal, and mobile computers were connected to the network. Although the Internet was widely used by academia in the 1980s, the commercialization incorporated its services and technologies into virtually every aspect of modern life.
SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA

Here are some facts about the internet that you must know before using the internet.

1) Internet World Stats show that 4,536,248,808 people have internet access as of June 30, 2019.
2) Around 1.94 billion websites from around the world have been recorded in December 2018.
3) Almost half of the internet users on Earth are from Asia.
4) Of all the traffic on the internet, 51.8% are from bots while 48.2% are from humans.
5) As of December 27, 2019, the internet is 11,247 days old or around 31 years old.
6) 93% of existing website traffic comes from search engines.
7) Website load times that take longer than 2 seconds increased bounce rates by 50%.
8) North America only makes up 8.2% of the entire population of internet users.
9) In Q2 2018,.COM became the top-level domain that has the most registered sites.
10) In Q3 2018, all the top-level domains gathered 342 million domain name registrations.
11) Daily blog posts published on the internet reach up to 4 million.
12) High ranking Google content has an average word count of 1,140-1,285 words.
13) The processing of an answer for one Google query utilizes 1,000 computers within 0.2 seconds.
14) Among the population of internet users, 80% have a mobile phone in possession.
15) The average time that a person spends on social media networks every day is 2 hours and 15 minutes.


16) Amongst all searches on record, around 50% of them have at least 4 words.
17) An average of 63,000 searches passes through Google each second of every day.
18) There are 2.1 billion accounts on Facebook, but 270 million of them are fake accounts.
19) South Korea has the most population of mobile users at 71.5%.
12) Each day, more than 90,000 websites fall victim to hacking.
13) NASA has an internet speed of 91 gigabits per second.
14) The World Wide Web can survive a catastrophic event.
15) St. Isidore of Seville is the patron saint of the internet.
16) The invention of the webcam was initially intended to constantly check on a coffee pot.
17) The first browser that Microsoft Windows released was Cello.
18) The first MP3 player released was the WinPlay3.
19) Microsoft bought Hotmail just a year after its launch.
20) The first social network made available to the public is SixDegrees.com
21) Google went live in 1998.
22) The first major online scandal was leaked in 1999.
23) The Millenium Bug was an unforeseen problem in the computer system.
24) The term “wifi” does not have a significant meaning.
25) On its launching date, Facebook was “The Facebook for Harvard University Students.”
26) Facebook started as a group of college students’ way to socialize with their classmates better.
27) Twitter was only a “Plan B” to Noah Glass’ podcasting venture.
28) America programmer Jack Dorsey birthed the idea of the then “Twttr.”
29) Alexa claims Google as the most popular website in the U.S.
30) The most visited social media platform in the world is Facebook.

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