What are some mind blowing facts about the internet?

 1. It would take around 11 trillion years to download the entire Internet.

2. On its launching date, Facebook was “The Facebook for Harvard University Students.”

3. Facebook is a social media giant, but it wasn't the first one. The first social media site was Six Degrees, made in 1997.

4. Porn websites have more visitors than your favorite sites even you combine Twitter, Netflix, and Amazon.

5. The Internet can decide who our next president is. 37% of Americans prefer to get their news online.

6. People spend 89% of their mobile media time on apps and the other 11% on websites.

7. The most played song on Spotify is “Wake Me Up” by Avicii.

8. This is what Facebook looked like in 2004:

9. 26% of people put items in their shopping cart just to check delivery costs.

10. Online shoppers will spend 30% more per order when free shipping is included.

11. Your data may already be on the Dark Web. Information on 267 million Facebook users sold in Q1 2020 for $540.

12. Of all the traffic on the Internet, 51.8% are from bots while 48.2% are from humans.

What are some mind blowing facts about Internet?

 1. Norway has 98% of its population on the internet.

2. America has been charged $400 billion for a fibre internet that never came.

3. The internet reached a market audience of 50 million users in 5 years.

4.AOL spent $300 million to mail CD-Roms.

5. 7 million GeoCities sites were shut down in 2009.

In the early days of the internet, GeoCities was one of the first places everyday people could create their own place on the web. It usually resulted in poor quality personal websites. In 2009, however, Yahoo! decided to shut down the entire operation, resulting in 7 million websites removed from the internet completely.

6.IMDb has been around since the 1990s.

7. 30,000 websites are hacked every day.

8.500 million tweets are sent every day.

9. Internet traffic is mostly by bots and malware, not humans.

10. China has treatment camps for internet addicts.

With 632 million internet users in China, many believe 23 million of them are addicted to it. So, in an effort to curb addiction, China created boot camps to turn their children around. They consider anyone spending six hours or more a day on the internet to be addicted to it.

11. Online dating generates approximately 2.2 billion dollars every year.

12. 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute.

13. The inventor of the web was knighted by Queen Elizabeth.

Considered “The Father of the Web,” Tim Berners-Lee helped design the system to better navigate the internet. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 2003 for his work.

14. The first tweet was posted on March 21, 2006, by Jack Dorsey.

15. Around 247 billion emails are sent in one day.

It’s estimated by Radicati Group that around 247 billion emails are sent every day. However, about 90% of them are SPAM and viruses. So, be careful what emails you open.

16. The world’s first website still exists.

In March 1989, the first website went live. Believe it or not, it’s still in existence today and it’s looking just as barebones as it likely did back then.

What is surprising about the history of the internet?

 Here are some records in the history of the internet:

• The first search engine was WebCrawler.com in 1994.
• The first change on Wikipedia was made by Jimmy Wales (founder) writing "Hello, World!".
• The first domain in history is symbolycs .com and was registered on March 15, 1985 by Symbolics, a company that produced computers

• The first Instant Messenger chat was ICQ launched in 1996 and still used today.
• The first website in history (still online here) was put online by CERN in Geneva in 1990 and contains information for the World Wide Web Project J.
• The first e-mail was sent in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson. The message was sent before the creation of the Internet network and before the introduction of the "@" symbol in the e-mail addresses!
• The first online bank was Stanford Federal Credit Union. In October 1994, it provided all its customers with Internet banking services.
• The first Blog is dated 1994 and was written by the American journalist Justin Hall.

• The first spam e-mail was apparently sent by Gary Thuerk, on Arpanet, in 1979. It was an advertisement sent to 393 people at once.
• The first web browser, released in 1993, was called Mosaic and can still be downloaded!
• The first podcast was by Dave Winer, an American software developer who in 2001 added audio content to his blog's RSS feed.
• The first mobile phone with Internet access was the Nokia 9000 Communicator (launched in 1996 in Finland).
• The first e-commerce website is called NetMarket.

• The first item sold on eBay was a broken $14.83 worth of laser pointer sold by one of the co-founders of the well-known e-commerce.
• The first video uploaded to YouTube was titled "Me at the Zoo" and was published on April 23, 2005 by YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim. It's still online and you can see it.
• The first Hacker attack in history took place in 1990. Object of the attack: the websites of the US Department of Justice, the US Air Force, the CIA, NASA and some others.
• The first Social Network was born in 2000 and it's called FriendUnited.
• The first GIF in history was created by Compuserve in 1987.

What are some interesting facts about the Internet?

 Here are some amazing facts :-

1. 204 million emails are sent per minute over the internet and 70% of all the emails sent are spam. 2 billion electrons are required to produce a single email on an average.
2. The most expensive keyword for Google AdWords is "insurance." Take a look at others (The Top 20 Most Expensive Keywords in Google AdWords Advertising)
3. Finland became the first country to make the internet access a legal right. Others must follow.
4. This is the NeXT computer that Tim Berners-Lee used to create the World Wide Web:

5. Online dating generates over 1 billion dollars each year.

6. There’s a bigger part of the Internet, which is not linked with the common internet we use. It’s called ‘The Deep Web,’ which is at least 500 times larger than the common Internet and the sites in there are completely anonymous and you can surf them anonymously.

7. The first ever website is still online The World Wide Web project

8. Although the MP3 standard was invented in 1991, it wouldn’t be until 1998 that the first music file-sharing service Napster, would go live, and change the way the Internet was used forever.

I accumulated these facts using Internet only.

What is the most amazing thing you’ve ever found on the Internet?

 I was going through Pinterest the other day and I found some of the most precious and stunning vintage photographs of Indian women dating back to the 19th century.

I personally felt that these timeless photos depict the richness and the authenticity of Indian culture and they are worth sharing…

1)Photo of nautch dancers of Hyderabad in the 1860s .The girls are wearing dancers traditional jewels. The reclining girl has a jewelled sheath covering her long plait.

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2) Picture of a girl…. perhaps a bride:) in heavy jewellery and a dazzling saree from Madras in TamilNadu taken in 1872…..(Holy Moly!!! That saree is a masterpeice!!!)

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3)Two Brahmin girls in saree...circa 1855

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3)Photo of a young woman holding a foldable fan and looking fabulous in a saree .That embroidered blouse is amazingly looking very modern.. Date unkown.

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4) Photo of a Bayadere( devadasi, temple dancer) from Coromandel Coast region….circa 1857–1861. Photographer Fedor Jagor

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5) An Indian Ayah( Nanny) with two children

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6)Women of Madras in 1870

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7) Yet another young bride dressed from head to toe in some of the finest jewellery..circa late 1800’s

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8) Here comes a proud moment in Indian history with this picture which depicts an Indian woman, a Syrian woman and a Japanese woman , all training to be doctors at Women’s Medical College of Philadelphia- October 10 ,1885

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9) A little girl looking cute as a button in fine clothes and jewellery( a bit too heavy for her age)…circa 1916

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10) A Malayali singer and dancer…dated early 1900’s

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11) Three very young girls wearing sarees and jewellery in Madras..1870

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12) Picture of two Marwari women , circa 1885

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13) A woman wearing a Gharara, a traditional Lucknowi garment worn by Muslim women of Hindi Belt. It consists of a kurti, a dupatta and a pair of wide legged pants with each leg made from over 12 meters of silk brocoade…!!!

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14) Another little girl…perhaps a princess sitting like a legend…

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15) Indian dancer, 1880

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16) A Tamil lady

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These are a few of the photographs I’ve come across. I didn’t want to make a long post, so couldn’t upload them all..:(

I couldn’t help appreciating the quality of the photos and also couldn’t help noticing the amount of jewellery women wore those days..:):)

Anyways…I believe these pictures gives us a peek into the culture and tradition of ancient India and an era long forgotten..

I was really happy to come across them.

What are the best photos which broke the internet?

 The oldest gate still in use in Rome.

The Statue Of Unity in India is the largest statue in the world. It is 182m high and 240m high if we include its base.

This is the Tianjin Binhai Library. If you don't believe what you see, you are right. The books on the top shelves are not real, they are just stickers.

Salt mines in Iran.

This is the Queen Mary 2, a British ocean liner, and its captain.

Most Intresting Photographes Found on Internet

 1. The full Tiananmen Square Tank Man picture is so much more powerful than the cropped one

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2. Tom Cruise sitting on top of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, without a harness

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3. Advert for Pakistan International Airlines 1979

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4. In 1996 Ukraine handed over nuclear weapons to Russia "in exchange for a guarantee never to be threatened or invaded".

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5. He was told he could wear a costume...

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6. Cotton picker at night looks like a huge concert crowd

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7. Never before seen 9/11 photo, discovered in a photo book.

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8. You are Looking the first Image of another solar system

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9. NASA will officially have to say goodbye to the little rover that could. The Mars Opportunity Rover was meant to last just 90 days and instead marched on for 14 years. It finally lost contact with earth after it was hit by a fierce dust storm.

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10. Police escort when you kill 1 rich CEO vs when you kill 4 college students

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11. Aerial Picture of an uncontacted Amazon Tribe

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12. No Red In This Photo

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13. Cabin in Alaska for rent, lovely view.

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14. Aftermath from a sleepover in 1996

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The City of Angels

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15. Dad looks so proud of himself

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16. Sleeping Squirrels in their nest on someones window ledge.

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17. The rejected EU flag from 2002

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18. Worker spraying the streets to prevent Covid 19. This is the most cyberpunk picture I've ever seen.

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19. This optical illusion on a pedestrian crossing in Iceland to oblige cars to brake

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20. 20 years ago, someone impaled a 60 pound pumpkin on the top of a spire at Cornell University in the middle of the night. It was over 170 feet off the ground. To this day, no one is really sure how this was accomplished without anyone noticing.

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21. Conjoined twins had a 1/30 million chance of survival at birth, they are now adults and have become teachers!

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22. The weather in the Netherlands

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23. The door is real—the rest is graffiti

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24. A special effects artist made himself a mask for the pandemic and I can't get over it

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25. This woman has hematohidrosis, a rare condition where blood is excreted through the sweat glands

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26. $20 bill with a serial number 1

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27. CT Scan of 1,000-year-old Buddha sculpture reveals mummified monk hidden inside

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28. The pronghorn, the fastest animal in North America, evolved to outrun the American Cheetah: a predator that no longer exists.

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29. Mountain Goat defying gravity