The Internet is an integral part of our daily tasks, indeed of life in general. It is an inexhaustible source of data, information, misinformation, weirdness, ideas, etc. It allows us to know everything about everything. In all of this, however, we often know too little about the source that provides us with all of this, i.e. the World Wide Web. Although you probably know that it is a difficult task to separate opinions from facts on the Internet, we assure you that we have already made a false choice.
Usage the world wide web it has penetrated into every pore of our lives and today it is practically impossible to do without it. He became not only tool and a toy, but also a weapon. However, few people know about him the most interesting facts. Let's take a look at some of them below.
- China employs approx 300 trolls (online "mercenaries") to create a good impression of the Communist Party.
- Average internet speed on the International Space Station (ISS) is faster than the average internet speed in Australia.
- First website is still active (created in Black– European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Approx. are sent daily. 250 million emails, 82% of which is spam (junk mail)
- The first web camera, who posted the picture on the world wide web, was filming a coffee machine from the Trojan room of the computer department of Cambridge University. Its purpose: monitoring the state of the amount of water in the pot.
- Facebook has 1.2 billion active users. The Internet has slightly more than 2.4 of them, which means that almost half of them are "Facebookers".
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- In 2008, Apple released an iOS app "I Am Rich" ("I'm Rich"), which sold for $999.99. Six people bought it. It was without functions.
- British programmer Tim Berners-Lee is the founder of the World Wide Web.
- There is a part of the web that standard web search engines type Google and internet tools do not index and which is completely anonymous (this is where spam comes from, for example). You are hidden beneath the surface of the web deep web (deep web), the dark side of the web, also called the deep web, the deep web, the invisible web, the online underground and the hidden web, which is more than 500X bigger from the internet as we know it.
- An institute in Colorado has created a clock so precise that it won't gain or lose a second for twenty million years. It is used by the world (ie Internet time or internet time).
- It has the fastest internet in the world Hong Kong.
- Broadband Internet 4G/LTE (companies Huawei in collaboration with Chila Mobile) also provides access to the web on Mt. Everest, strokes of the world. The base station is located at 5200 meters and allows the use of both calls and mobile internet. The first one here was Ncell's 3G network of the Swedish company Teliasonera, which still owns the lowest lying network in the world, located in a mine, 1,400 meters below sea level.
- Saints Isidore of Seville, saint, theologian, church teacher is considered the patron saint of the Internet. We celebrate his birthday on April 4.
- Everyone prisoners in Norway they have access to the Internet.
- He needed the Internet 4 years, that he achieved 50 million people. It took radio 38 years to reach the same number, and television 13 years.
- We humans are only responsible for 49% web traffic.
- In 2010, Google only indexed 0.004% web.
