Interenet. From birth until today

Interesting facts about interenete





Year of birth Web can be considered in 1970, as this is the year it was decided to link all networks in the world into one. At the moment, the Internet is the largest repository of the world: it is possible to find everything, and it is available to everyone.

The technology that underlies the Web, was born in the 60s of XX century in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The first message sent over the network, the word "LOG". Why this word? The user tried to write "LOGIN", but the letter G on the connection was lost.

The first page of the Internet, with which the story began, located at «_http: //info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html» and contained information about the project "WorldWideWeb" (the acronym stands for as www). Unfortunately, this page could not be saved.

The first computer was the invention of Konrad Zuse, which he invented in 1936. He was named the Z1. Next invention called Z2, was the first electromechanical computer that functioned fully.

Smileys - the only expression of emotion on the Web. The first smile appeared in 1979 and looked like "-)." It is not quite like a person's face, so later transformed into a kind of «:-)».

At the moment, the average news site has so much information on your server, as I could learn one person in my entire life in the 18th century.

Radio in his time, it took almost 40 years, which would attract the attention of 50 million listeners and television - 13 years. Surprisingly, the Internet took only 4 years, what would they began to use the same number of users.

Daily on the Internet is sent to about 250 billion letters, 81% of which is spam.

The most interesting and at the same time, the strangest gadget with access to the web of - a refrigerator with wi-fi.

The world's first website was published in 1990. It was info.cern.ch. It was created by Tim Berners, where he published a description of technology www.

The lowest percentage of Internet users - in North Korea, at a time when the biggest - and Iceland.

At the moment, the number of internet users has exceeded 2 billion, and this despite the fact that in 2006 there were no more than 600 thousand million.

The world-famous Google said that the Internet today is about 5 million terabytes (1 TB = 1024 GB), while as indexed only 0, 04% of the data.

Today, online stores registered higher than normal, respectively, online sales according to unofficial statistics - the most common in the world of trading.

Every minute on Youtube is loaded up to 20 hours of video. The first video called quite boring - "I'm in a zoo." Its content was not much interesting of its name, in fact, as 99% of the content of this resource today.

The largest fine was punishment for the creation of a site with photos of doctors who do abortions, titled sought. " For this violation of the lawful owners of the service paid $ 107, 7 million.

In 1995 there was one known site - auction eBay. The first thing that is sold here, has become a broken laser pointer. The founder of the site Amidyar was so surprised that he asked the buyer, it really, he realized that the subject is broken. It turned out that the buyer - a collector of broken pointers.