Here are some interesting figure facts for you geeks who want to know more about the Internet usage. Full list after jump.
- 35.6% of internet users are Asian.
- With average of 389 million of internet surfers each month, Asia is the largest internet crowd among other world regions.
- In Afirca, 3 out of 100 surf the Internet.
- In Asia, 10 out of 100 surf the Internet.
- In Europe, 38 out of 100 surf the Internet.
- In Middle East, 10 out of 100 surf the Internet.
- In North America, 70 out of 100 surf the Internet.
- In Latin America, 16 out of 100 surf the Internet.
- In Australia, 53 out of 100 surf the Internet.
- Only 16.6% of world population surf the internet.
- 1 billion users around the globe are surfing the Internet every month.
- Amount of internet surfers in Asia (389,392,28 mil) is 11 times the population of Australia (34,468,443 mil).
- 19% of internet users are from United States (210,080,067 mil).
- Around 18 countries still doesn’t have Internet connection.North Korea’s internet penetration statistics is not publicized.
Google has estimated some amazing facts about the internet. Since the dawn of Internet time, the number of websites has grown exponentially and so too has the amount of information available and created.
The Internet has shaped our lives in profound ways, especially if you’re old enough to remember the pre-Internet era where a business card was the equivalent of a LinkedIn profile.
Facts About The InternetNOTE: sourced from multiple locations, tried to be as statistically accurate as possible as of May 2013.
Google estimated in 2010, that the data size of the Internet is 5 million Terabytes, 61% from videos, and growing rapidly. Google has the largest index of the Internet out of any company, but claims to have scanned only 0.004% of the total.
There’s an estimated 637 million websites (source), of which there are over 250 million blogs.
"There are approximately 4,200 new domain names registered every hour, or around 37 million per year."Share This Quote:
4.WordPress, the most widely known Content Management System (CMS) for websites, powers approximately 63 million blogs, but is not the largest blog provider.
Tumblr.com has 102 Million blogs, Livejournal reports 63 million blogs and Weebly states it has over 12 million blogs.
Facebook has an estimated 1.2 Billion active users.
To put that into perspective, there’s about 7 billion people on Earth. 17% of humans are on Facebook.
6.Even more crazy is that there are about 2.4 billion Internet users. That means 50% of all Internet users are on Facebook.
On the original “The Facebook” website, Al Pacino’s face can be seen in the upper left-hand corner.
The first ever email was sent in 1971 by Ray Tomilinson, the US programmer who invented the email system.
The “@” symbol was used to signify that the message was sent to a person instead of a machine.
About 250 billion emails are sent every day.
"81% of all emails sent is considered to be spam. That’s 200 billion every day."Share This Quote:
The first spam message sent to multiple recipients was sent in 1978 for DEC System 2020. The 600 recipients were not pleased to receive it.
The first ever website is still online here.
Twitter was first described by founder Jack Dorsey, as an SMS-based social network, codenamed twttr. He sent the first tweet on March 21, 2006, “just setting up my twttr”.
There are now about 1,700 tweets sent every second.
Garfield the cartoon cat once offered a free email service.
Can you guess the domain name?
It was gmail.com, later acquired by Google.
An estimated 65% of Americans watch TV and use the Internet simultaneously. 80% of all Americans are online.
"Over a billion people watch videos on YouTube every month, averaging 4 hours each per month."Share This Quote:
72 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute, and YouTube’s copyright-checking software scans over 100 years of video every day.(source)
The first ever webcam was deployed at Cambridge University computer lab. No, it wasn’t to Skype or Facetime. It was used to watch a pot of coffee.
"The iPhone 4 is about 2,000 times faster than the Super Nintendo."Share This Quote:
Both Apple’s iTunes store and Google’s Play store claim to have over 800,000 apps each.
780,000 iOS apps are downloaded every hour.
Fact 1: The first hard drive by IBM
The first hard drive was made by IBM in 1956 and was called IBM Model 350 Disk File. The first-generation storage unit was huge, with a cabinet the size of a cupboard that held 50 24-inch disks and held an impressive 5MB of data.
Fact 2: RadioShack
RadioShack was one of the first companies to start the PC revolution in the mid 70′s with its TRS-80.
What most people don’t know is that RadioShack used to be called “Tandy Radio Shack & Leather” after it was acquired by Tandy, a leather goods company, in 1963.
Fact 3: The first palmtop computer
The Atari Portfolio was released in 1989 and was the world’s first palmtop computer. Two years later it appeared in the film Terminator 2, where it was used by John Connor to hack an ATM and retrieve the key to the vault in the Cyberdyne lab.
Fact 4: The first mouse
Many think the first mouse was invented in 1970 at Xerox PARC. However, the first mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart in 1963. It was a wooden shell with two metal wheels.
This fact was suggested by Tiarnan Branson.
Fact 5: The digital circuit
Claude Shannon, the “Father of information theory”, invented the digital circuit when he was only 21, during his master’s degree.
Shannon loved inventions – check out his “Ultimate Machine“. When you turn on the switch, an arm pops out and turns it back off.
Fact 6: The Apolo 11 computers
How powerful were the computers that took us to the moon? Turns out that the Apolo 11 computers had less processing power than a modern cellphone!