9 amazing online records

We offer you a selection of the most interesting online records.

1. The largest number of followers Twitter: Lady Gaga



Sorry, Bieber - Lady Gaga wins. You may be surprised, but the queen of the pop charts is the number one to Twitter with 26,823,122 subscribers (as of July 2012). Justin Bieber with the "void" 24687443 far behind. Also in the top 5 includes Katy Perry (22,869,592) and Rihanna (22,232,112). And on the 6th row of the rankings is US President Barack Obama (17,381,203), which is the second man in the top ten.

2. The largest number of views on YouTube: Justin Biber



You can think of this place Bieber. He leads the Top Of The Pops on YouTube with 755,479,979 watching his hit Baby as of 7/6/2012.

By the way, if we talk about children, the most popular music video of all time was the video Charlie Bit My Finger with 464,588,601 page views.

3. The oldest site: Symbolics.com



March 15, 1985, Symbolics Computer Corporation made history as the first domain that is registered in the world. In the distant year in the world there are only five websites. Today there are more than 192 million domains and has more than 2, 1 billion of Internet users around the world, mostly in Asia. Symbolics.com was sold to the owners in 2009, and now you can find there is a bunch of useless but interesting information.

4. The longest domain name: Llanfairpwllgw-yngyllgogerychwyrndrobwll-Llantysiliogogogoch.com



Technically, a domain name can contain up to 63 characters (not including sub-domains or suffixes). Each domain name looks like this: thelongestdomainnameintheworldandthensomeandthensomemoreandmore.com/. In second place - abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com/, where there is a free e-mail service for people who wish to annoy the world around them. But the opinion of the Guinness World Records winner was the domain Llanfairpwllgw-yngyllgogerychwyrndrobwll-Llantysiliogogogoch.com, which is the website of a real city in Wales.

5. The highest webcam in the world: Mount Everest



In our world, where there is the ubiquitous surveillance, it becomes increasingly difficult to avoid falling into the camera lens. Even a small ethnic group called Sherpas, who lives in the mountains of Tibet, is currently under the supervision of the camcorder, which was established by the Italian Scientific Committee at a height of 5643 meters at the peak of Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth.

6. The largest online date: royal svadba



When Prince William married Kate Middleton April 29, 2011, it seemed that the whole world is looking at their wedding. According to experts, the ceremony looked more than 2, 5 billion people. About 1, 6 million people watched the royal wedding online, topping views soccer World Cup 2010. Yahoo search engine there were 40,000 requests per second for the video.

But people not only watched the video, they are actively pressed the relevant news about the wedding in the royal family on various websites. Counters recorded 5,000,000 page views per minute at the peak of popularity that exceeded the interest in the funeral of Michael Jackson. On Facebook, 6, 8 million people celebrated the royal wedding status update within 24 hours, resulting in a new statuses received 9.4 million comments. If the royal couple's honeymoon was shown online, it is likely that the Internet would collapse, unable to bear such a load.

7. The country with the fastest Internet: South Koreya



By the year 2006 at 96% of the South Korean mobile phone users have access to the Internet. Today people in South Korea are connected to a network at an incredible 17 super speed 5 MB / s. In second place is Japan at a speed of 9, 1 Mb / s, after her go Hong Kong, the Netherlands and Latvia.

What is the average speed of the Internet in the world? Only 2, 3 MB / s. Surprisingly, over the past year global average speed decreased by 14%.

8. The most expensive domain name: Insure.com



If you believe that the best sold sex, think again. The largest fair way of taking money from the population - insurance. In 2006, the site Insure.com ranked first in value of $ 16 million. Dollars, still exceeding Sex.com with his $ 14 million. The proceeds from the sale in October 2010.

But the biggest lucky in this list - a Farm Bureau, which sold FB.com Facebook'u for $ 8, 5 million.

9. The largest number of "likes" on Facebook in 24 hours: Oreo or Lil Wayne? 80,871,356



It started as a silly publicity stunt for cookies. In February 2011, the company producing the famous Oreo cookies has announced a campaign to get into the Guinness Book of Records for the highest number of likes for one day.

And 16 February black and white delicacy really was obtained as a result of the record 114,619 Likes in 24 hours. However, some Oreo cookies laurels haunt. Rapper Lil Wayne threw his fans cry, to set its own record for the "likes". After a day of record was destroyed by Oreo 588,243 huskies on the status of Wayne Lil.

This has caused a wide resonance throughout the world, but the Guinness Book of Records, the Commission ignored the new record, which was not recorded properly. Oreo received the prize, however, as the statute of Guinness: "All categories are open to the public, and anyone who wants can try to set his own record by simply registering on www.guinnessworldrecords.com/apply.

via factroom.ru