The Internet was introduced in the 80’s and since then it has been in a state of evolution and it is still growing everyday. It was introduced as a concept and it has grown to be a necessity of our lives. Today it feels like a part of our lives are gone when there’s no Wi-Fi. I know you find that relatable!
Even with the Internet being the first necessity that comes after Home and Food, we don’t really know much about it in detail, Here I compiled 5 facts about the internet you probably didn’t know! and if you did, Good For You! READ IT ANYWAY!!!
300 hours of video content is being uploaded on YouTube every minute!
About five billion videos are watched on Youtube every day, with 300 hours of video being uploaded every minute. Youtube was launched in 2005 and quickly became one of the most popular websites on the internet. The music video for “Despacito” is the most watched video on Youtube to date.
Google is the most viewed site on the internet.
With more than a billion websites to choose from, Google is king. According to the traffic ranking site Alexa, Google.com is the most visited site in the world. Youtube.com ranks second and the Chinese language search engine Baidu.com is third.
The First Social Network.
SixDegrees.com was one of the first social network services available to the public. This was one of the first times users could upload photos and information that was shareable within smaller networks usually angled around similar interests.
The Dark Web.
Believe it or not, the dark web is a real thing. There’s actually three parts to the internet. Firstly, there’s the surface web, then there’s the Deep Web and after that comes the dark web.
Surface web is what you usually see on Google or any other search engine of your preference. The Deep Web is where data is stored. Facebook databases, Google databases and even Army credentials and military launch codes too.
The dark web is a small part of the Deep Web. There’s a lot of illegal stuff in the dark web. You might not want to know about.
Wi-Fi, the name was given from a marketing company, and it doesn’t mean anything.
Around 1999, the brand-consulting firm Interbrand created the name Wi-Fi after being commissioned by the Wi-FI Alliance to market the then-innovative service. The term Wi-Fi doesn’t have any actual meaning. Its origins are also kind of unknown. Some sources report that it started in the 70’s in Hawaii and other report that it was created in Australia during the early 90’s.
