Commercial internet service since its inception in the 80s has changed human existence and how we communicate, learn and generally live. If you really think about it, the Internet has become a ‘god’ of sorts for billions. Why? Because they can’t live without it!
In honour of this modern day deity, we compiled a few rare facts about the Internet that you not be aware of:
- Every minute, 72 hours of YouTube videos are uploaded by internet users across the world. This comes to a total of 103,680 hours every day!
- 250 billion emails are sent daily. Of these, 81% are spam. That’s 202,500,000,000 of spam messages sent out everyday. Just to be clear, spam is flooding the Internet with many copies of the same message, in an attempt to force the message on people who would not otherwise choose to receive it.
- Modern Humans using the Internet usually have short attention spans. 50% of us leave a loading video after 10 seconds and skip to the next video on the page. No chill whatsoever.
- The world’s first website is still online. Although it’s a basic html site with basic texts, Info.cern.ch is alive and operative.
- The internet weighs a mere 50g, which is the same weight as that of a strawberry.
- The first webcam was created in Cambridge University, where it was originally used to monitor a coffee pot’s status, if it was empty or filled.
- About two thirds of traffic on the internet is caused by bots, a software application that runs automated tasks (scripts) over the Internet and not humans. No surprises here. Now that the robots already outdo us on the internet, it won’t be long before the Machines will rise up and revolt against humans.
