10 Facts about internet that you didn't know before

10 Facts about internet that you didn't know before

1. 3.1 Billion out of the 7 Billion people on earth is already online.

InternetLiveStats (ILS) monitors the live state of the internet, and as of Sept 5, 2015, there are 3,197,308,895 users on the web. This is expected to grow even more by the year 2020.

2. China has treatment camps for internet addicts. 

200 million Internet users in China are between the ages of 15 and 35. Hence, it is most like that they lose self-control. Tao Ran, director of the country’s first Internet addiction treatment clinic under a military hospital in Beijing said that 40% of those addicted to the Internet suffer from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

3. Approximately 5000 domain names are registered every hour.

That translates the number to a whopping 120,000 Domains every single day and 43 Million domain names a year. The greatest irony is that more than 75% of Domains are not live. They are simply parked or not at all resolving, that’s the reason why you don’t get your desired .com domain.

4.  30,000 websites are hacked every day. 

Highly effective computer software programs are used by cybercriminals to automatically detect vulnerable websites which can be hacked easily.

5.  Internet sends approximately 204 million emails per minute 

70% of all the emails sent are spam. 2 billion electrons are required to produce a single email.

6. The first website created was info.cern.ch, and it is still online and working fine. 

It is a very basic HTML site, and the page contains few lines of text. The page was written with the help of the first version of HTML.

7. By the time you reached this paragraph, 150+ Hours of videos have already been uploaded to YouTube. 

Speaking about user engagement, the massive video sharing site serves 1 Billion people every month, and an average internet user spends 4 hours every month on YouTube.

Looking at such stats, Google has taken massive steps to protect copyrights of individuals by scanning over 100 years of video contents every day using complex software.

8.  Approximately 9 Million adults in Britain and one-third of Italians have never used the internet. 

Imagine that! While there are treatment camps for internet addicts in China, a vast population of people has never used it till date.

9. Humans only make up 49% of the entire traffic; the rest are triggered by various bots and spamming software. 

No doubt, we would be having faster connectivity If they weren’t leeching on bandwidths.

10. Approximately £1.7 trillion worth of funds is spent online.

 If you ever counted the hours you were online, you would definitely freak out.