Unknown Surprising Facts about the INTERNET.


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Unknown Surprising Facts about the INTERNET.

Unknown Surprising Facts about the INTERNET THE INTERNET IS OLDER THAN YOU THINK • The idea of the internet can be traced back to the 1900's with scientists, engineers and others plotting the flow of information via technology. • It wasn't until the 1960's that J.C.R. Licklider from MIT thought of the "Intergalactic Network" for computers. Source: www.redbookmag.com REMEMBER THE WORLD WIDE WEB? • In 1989 Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web. If you don't remember the term World Wide Web, it's now what is commonly referred to as The Web. • Berners-Lee coded the first web page in 1990 and the rest is history. Sites like Facebook and Google would not exist today without the ability to code in content. Source: www.redbookmag.com HACKING IS AT AN ALL-TIME HIGH • According to the Sophos Labs 2019 Threat Report, 30,000 web sites are hacked daily. Hacking has taken many shapes over the years. • Today, hacking can be associated with fake news and even incriminating digital paper trails. Hackers keep getting better with new technological advances. Source: www.redbookmag.com THE NAME WI-FI WAS CREATED BY A MARKETING COMPANY • 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. Source: www.redbookmag.com WE'RE SPENDING MORE TIME ONLINE EVERY YEAR • According to Kleiner Perkins 2019 Internet Trends Report, adults spend 5.9 hours a day actively online. • To combat this growing issue, most phone retailers and laptops are adding in limits to the amount of usage per day. Source: www.redbookmag.com GOOGLE IS THE MOST VISITED 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. Source: www.redbookmag.com THE FIRST EMAIL WAS SENT IN THE 1960'S • A very basic form of email was created in the 1960's. They used the ARPANET system that allowed a rudimentary form of file sharing among connected computers. • It wasn't until the late 90's that web-based email became popular with systems like AOL. Source: www.redbookmag.com THE CITY WITH THE FASTEST INTERNET IS MINNEAPOLIS • In the United States, Minneapolis ranks first with the fastest internet speed (measure in megabits per second). Saint Paul ranks second and Atlanta third. Source: www.redbookmag.com THE DARK WEB IS REAL • Rumors about the dark web are actually true. Acting as a small part of the deep web, the dark web is commonly associated with illegal activities. It's mostly unmonitored and unencrypted. Source: www.redbookmag.com THE MOST POPULAR THING TO DO ONLINE IS TO SEND EMAILS • According to Statista, 90.8% of people use the internet to send and receive emails. Coming close behind is texting or instant messaging with 90.2% and using social media ranks third with 74.4%. Source: www.redbookmag.com