The most interesting facts about the world wide web and the Internet

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

On November 12, 1990, British scientist Tim Burness-Lee published an official proposal for the creation of the World Wide Web. His invention was a real revolution in the development of the Internet. Many people think that the World Wide Web and the Internet are one and the same. However, this is not quite true. However, they are inextricably linked (the Web works on the basis of the Internet and provides access to documents located on various computers connected to the Internet).

We decided to collect interesting facts about the World Wide Web and the Internet.

• In the early days of the World Wide Web, the entire Internet was hosted on the personal computer of its creator Tim Berness-Lee.
• The first computer network was called Arpanet, and it united four American scientific institutions that were developing advanced technologies for the US Department of Defense.

The first web browser called Mosaic was released in 1993.

• The first web browser (the main tool of the World Wide Web) called Mosaic was released in 1993. It became the basis for the famous Internet Explorer browser.
• The first photo posted on the World Wide Web was a snapshot of the parody group Les Horrible Cernettes.

• At one time, radio took 38 years to reach the milestone of 50 million listeners. It took television 13 years to attract such a large number of viewers, and the Internet began to use 50 million people within 4 years after its creation.
• If you evaluate the information that a person possessed in the 18th century, then all of it can be posted on the site within a week.

80% of the world's population does not use the Internet.

• Despite the large number of users, 80% of the world's population does not use the Internet.
• Finland is featured in the Guinness Book of Records as it is home to a leading number of Internet users.
• The fastest Internet in the world for residents of South Korea and Japan.

• About 70% of Internet users are men.
• Every day, 247 billion emails are sent on the Internet worldwide, 81% of which are spam. 28% of the total amount of spam is sent from North America, followed by Russia, 7%.
• According to statistics, every eighth marriage in the United States is made thanks to the Internet. It is there that the acquaintance of future spouses takes place.

• The strangest gadget with access to the Web is a refrigerator with wi-fi.
• In 2011, it was planned to erect a monument to the World Wide Web in St. Petersburg. The composition was supposed to be a street bench in the form of WWW abbreviation with free access to the Internet.