Interesting facts you didn’t know about the Internet

1. The well-known social networking website Facebook (founded by Mark Zuckerberg) now has more than 520 million registered users. If Facebook was a country, it would have taken the third place among the world’s largest countries.

 

2. Within a month the Google search engine can handle 35 billion queries. Today, users search almost everything on the net: where to buy a TV, how to find a plumber – 10 years ago it was hard to imagine where a person was looking for answers to these questions.

 

3. The first smiley appeared in 1979, when Kevin McKenzie tried to express his emotions by electronic means. First it look like this -) Three years later, Scott Fahlman added a colon : -) and it took the form we are used to.

 

4. 81% of emails is spam. 

 

5. The most bizarre gadget is a refrigerator with built-in wi-fi, with the help of which you can surf the Internet.

 

6. There are sites out there for people looking for effective suicide instructions.

 

7. In 1974, the word "internet" first appeared in the "Internet Transmission Control Program" booklet as a shortening of the term "internetworking" or "inter-system networking." 

 

8. The first-ever webcam was used to watch a pot of coffee. 

 

sources :  http://www.businessinsider.com/10-crazy-facts-from-internet-history-2013-6/?IR=T#garfield-the-cartoon-cat-once-offered-a-free-email-service-at-gmailcom-1 , https://www.learning-mind.com/10-interesting-facts-you-didnt-know-about-the-internet/