Internet

1. According to Google, the internet consisted of 5 Million Terabytes of Data way back in 2010.
The most surprising fact is that Google itself said that they had indexed just 0.004% of all the content present on the internet.

As of  October 14th, 2018,  at least 4.46 billion pages exist on the internet. That’s huge!


2. As of October 2018, There are more than 1.9 billion websites on the Internet.
— To add more numbers to the data, as of 14th October 2018, there are around 441 million Tumblr blogs on the web. 75.8 million blogs and business sites in existence are on WordPress. Moreover, more than 5 million blog posts are published every single day.


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3. 95 million photos are uploaded on Instagram every day
The sad thing is that 70% of Instagram posts don’t get seen.


4. Internet users consumed one zettabyte bandwidth in 2016.
One Zettabyte is equal to a thousand Exabytes, a billion Terabytes, or trillion Gigabytes. By the year 2021, 82% of all IP traffic will be video, predicts Cisco.


5. 4 Billion out of the 7 Billion people on earth are already online.
InternetLiveStats (ILS) monitors the active state of the internet, and as at October 2018, there are 4,045,421,895 users on the web. This is expected to grow even more by the year 2020.


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6. 85,000+ websites are hacked every day.
WordPress and Joomla are the most affected CMS (content management systems) on the Internet.


7. 5000 domain names are registered every hour.
That translates the number to a whopping 120,000 Domains every single day and 43 million domain names a year. The irony? More than 75% of Domains are parked or not resolving, that’s the reason why you don’t get your desired .com domain name.


8. Facebook boasts of a massive 2.234 Billion users.
Approximately 30% of the world’s population is on Facebook. The social networking site had 1.74 billion mobile active users in Q3 2018.

Statistics suggest that around 50% of Internet users are on Facebook.

Also see: How Do You Know If Someone Blocked You on Snapchat


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9. The first ever email was sent in 1971.
The email was sent by Ray Tomlinson (US programmer) who invented the email system. The “@” symbol was used to signify that the email was sent to a person and not a dumb machine (computer). Sad that he doesn’t remember the exact message he sent back then.


10. 250 Billion emails are sent out daily.
No, these shocking numbers aren’t triggered by humans. The surprising fact is that 81% of all emails are spam which is sent using automated means. That’s a whopping 200 billion spam emails every day.

The first spam email was sent back in 1978, it was an advertisement for a presentation by Digital Equipment Corporation for DEC System 2020. The email contained 600 recipients, and none of them were happy to receive it.


11. The world’s first website is still online.
The first website created was info.cern.ch, and it is still online. It’s a basic HTML site, and the page contains a few lines of text. The page was written with the help of the first version of HTML.