10 interesting facts about the Internet
1 Emoticons For more than thirty years.
The first ubiquitous smiley :-) was a symbol that spoke of the fun, playful tone expelled posts . Its author is considered to be an American computer scientist Scott Fahlman , who first sent emoticon in a message to the Internet in 1982 .
2 View all videos on YouTube is not possible.
Every minute on YouTube appears about one hundred hours of new footage . To see all the movies that have added to this site only for one day , you'll need more than sixteen years.
3 The first site is still in the network.
Production sites for a long time is no longer unusual , but you can still get in on the very first web page that was created in 1990 in the Swiss CERN research center . The site was not available for many years , but it was restored in the past year .
4 Internet under the clouds .
When climbing Mount Everest , you can enjoy high-speed access (LTE) network . Moreover, the Internet is available , even on top of the highest mountain in the world.
5 Webcam appeared thanks ... coffee.
The first ever webcam installed at Cambridge University in 1991 ... the coffee machine . Thanks to the university workers to spy on whether their coffee welded or not . Laziness - the engine of progress :-) device that records an image with a resolution of 128x128 pixels , connected to the network in 1993 . Eight years later, the famous coffee was sold at an online auction site for £3 350.
6 How many people in the world has access to the Internet?
Even this year, access to the network will have three billion people , almost half the population of our planet . 2.4 billion people use the Internet on mobile devices .
- Keys to the Internet.
It sounds almost unbelievable : in the world there are seven very carefully selected people who hold so-called " keys to the Internet." This e-cards containing the code that allows you to literally restart the entire Internet . In the case of a global hacker attack " guard Internet " will be immediately taken to a military base in the US , where they activate their keys and then the global network will be disabled .
- The first advertisement on the Internet .
The first banner ad appeared on the network in 1994 in a campaign telecommunications giant , AT & T company .
- The rapidly growing popularity.
Four years after the invention of the Internet to use about 50 million people . For comparison , the creation of such an audience phone users took 75 years , Radio - 38 years TV - 13 years, and the game Angry Birds, attention , only 35 days.
- Tons of spam .
Worldwide, there are nearly four billion active email accounts . Daily they sent about 190 billion messages . According to studies, 80 percent of these messages can be as simple as spam. Also interesting is the history of the appearance of the word spam, which originates from the name of a brand of canned meat «Spam», has become known for its intrusive advertising.
