Most Interesting Facts About Internet Part 1

• At the time of writing, the internet was 10337 days old. Check the latest age of internet "http://howoldistheinter.net/".

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• The first website, info.cern.ch, was created way back in 1991 and and explained the concept of the World Wide Web to newcomers. It's still up and running.
• The first tweet was sent on March 21, 2006 by Jack Dorsey.
• It took Internet a mere three years to reach 50 million users. The television took 13 years and the radio managed to achieve the same goal in 18 years.
• Around 19 percent of couples in the world met for the first time because of Internet.
• The first ever email was sent in 1971 by Ray Tomilinson, the US programmer who invented the email system.
• About 250 billion emails are sent every day.
• 72 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute, and YouTube’s copyright-checking software scans over 100 years of video every day.

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• Over a billion people watch videos on YouTube every month, averaging 4 hours each per month.
• 81% of all emails sent is considered to be spam. That’s 200 billion every day.
• Google estimated in 2010, that the data size of the Internet is 5 million Terabytes, 61% from videos, and growing rapidly. Google has the largest index of the Internet out of any company, but claims to have scanned only 0.004% of the total.