Did you know that it took only 4 years for the internet to reach 50 million users? Radio took 38 years, while television took 13 years. Here are some interesting facts and information about the World Wide Web:

1. Worldwide Web was developed in the Objective C programming language.

2. The “www” part of a website is optional and is not required by any web policy or standard.

3. Twenty percent of the world’s population, 1.17 to 1.33 billion people, now use the Internet. North America (72%) has the highest penetration, Africa (5%) the lowest.

4. The terms Internet and World Wide Web are often used in everyday speech without much distinction. However, the Internet and the World Wide Web are not the same thing. The Internet is a global data communications system. It is a hardware and software infrastructure that provides connectivity between computers. Instead, the Web is one of the services communicated through the Internet. It is a collection of interconnected documents and other resources, linked by hyperlinks and URLs.

5. The Internet was called the ‘Galactic Network’ in memos written by JCR Licklider of MIT in 1962.

6. Researchers believe that the first search engine was Archie, created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a student at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

7. It was once considered a letter in the English language. The Chinese call it a little mouse, the Danes and Swedes call it an ‘elephant’s trunk’, the Germans call it a spider monkey and the Italians call it a snail. Israelis pronounce it ‘strudels’ and Czechs say ‘rollmops’s… What is it? The signal.

8. Did you know that the original URL of Yahoo! it was akebono.stanford.edu

9. Google got its name from the mathematical figure googol, which denotes the number ‘one followed by a hundred zeroes’.

10. Yahoo! It derived its name from the word Yahoo coined by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels. A Yahoo is a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human!

11. The main reason Google’s home page is so simple is due to the fact that the founders didn’t know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. In fact, the submit button was a later addition and initially, pressing the RETURN key was the only way to make Google come to life.

12. The word ‘e-mail’ has been banned by the French Ministry of Culture. Instead, they should use the word ‘E-mail’, which is the English equivalent of the Internet. This move became the subject of ridicule by the cyber community at large.

13. The first ISP was CompuServe, which still exists under AOL, Timer Warner.

14. Did you know that symbols.com was the first domain name registered online?

15. According to a report from the University of Minnesota, researchers estimate that the volume of Internet traffic is growing at an annual rate of 50 to 60 percent.

16. If you want to sell your book on amazon.com, you can set the price, but then they will take 55 percent off, leaving you with only 45 percent.

17. Nearly half of people online have at least three email accounts. Additionally, the average consumer has kept the same email address for four to six years.

18. Spam accounts for more than 60 percent of all email, according to Message Labs. Google says that at least a third of all Gmail servers are filled with spam.

19. Anthony Greco, 18, became the first person arrested for spam (unsolicited instant messaging) on ​​February 21, 2005.

20. The first website was built at CERN. CERN is the French acronym for the European Council for Nuclear Research and is located in Geneva, Switzerland.

21. The World Wide Web is the most extensive implementation of hypertext but it is not the only one. A computer help file is actually a hypertext document.

22. The concept of style sheets already existed when the first browser was released.

23. The address of the world’s first web server is info.cern.ch/ The URL of the first web page was nxoc01.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html. Although this page is no longer hosted at CERN, a later version of the page is posted at w3.org/History/199921103hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html.

24. The first browser to make the web available to PC and Mac users was Mosaic. It was developed by the National Supercomputing Center (NCSA) led by Marc Andreessen in February 1993. Mosaic was one of the first graphical web browsers and led to an explosion in web usage.

25. April 30, 1993 is an important date for the Web because on that day CERN announced that anyone can use WWW technology freely.

26. Microsoft released Internet Explorer in 1995. This event started the browser wars. By combining Internet Explorer with the Windows operating system, in 2002, Internet Explorer became the most dominant web browser with a market share of over 95 percent.

27. The W3C or the World Wide Web Consortium manages the development of standards for the World Wide Web. The W3C was founded in October 1994 and led by Tim Berners-Lee.

28. Only 4 percent of Arab women use the Internet. Moroccan women make up almost a third of that number.

29. YouTube’s bandwidth requirements to upload and watch all those videos cost up to $1 million per day and drawing. The income generated by YouTube cannot pay for its maintenance.

30. According to AT&T Vice President Jim Cicconi, 8 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. This was in April 2008. On May 21, 2009, YouTube received 20 hours of video content per minute.

31. About 75 percent of the music that is available for download has never been purchased and costs money to be on the server.

32. Domain registration was free until the National Science Foundation decided to change this on September 14, 1995.

33. An estimated one in eight married couples started out by meeting online.

34. Iceland has the highest percentage of internet users at 68%. The United States stands at 56%. 34% of all Malaysians use the Internet, while only 8% of Jordanians are online, 4% of Palestinians; 0.6% Nigerians and 0.1% Tajiks.

35. Google employees are encouraged to spend 20 percent of their time working on their own projects. Google News and Orkut are examples of projects that emerged from this working model.

36. The technology behind the Internet began in the 1960s at MIT. The first message that was transmitted was LOG… why? The user had tried to type LOGIN, but the network crashed after the huge data load of the letter G. It would be a while before Facebook was developed.

37. According to a report from the University of Minnesota, researchers estimate that the volume of Internet traffic is growing at an annual rate of 50 to 60 percent.

38. Since the birth of the Internet, file sharing was a problem for the authorities that administered it. In 1989, McGill University shut down its FTP indexing site after discovering that it was responsible for half of the Internet traffic from the United States to Canada. Fortunately, several similar file indexing sites have already been created.

39. Google estimates that the Internet currently contains about 5 million terabytes of data (1 TB = 1,000 GB), and claims that it has only indexed a measly 0.04% of it! You could fit the entire Internet on just 200 million Blu-Ray discs.

40. Speaking of search: A THIRD of all Internet searches are specifically for porn. It is estimated that 80% of all images on the Internet are of nude women.

41. According to legend, Amazon became the number one shopping site because in the days before the search giant Google was invented, Yahoo listed the sites in its directory alphabetically!

42. The first banner ad hit the internet in 1994, and it was just as bad as it is today. The ad was part of AT&T’s “you will do it” campaign and was placed on the home page of HotWired.

43. Of the 247 BILLION emails sent every day, 81% are pure spam.

44. 35.6% of Internet users are Asian. With an average of 389 million Internet users every month, Asia is the largest Internet crowd among other regions in the world. In Asia, 10 out of 100 surf the Internet.

45. Only 16.6% of the world’s population surfs the Internet. The number of Internet users in Asia (389,392.28 thousand) is 11 times the population of Australia (34,468,443 thousand). 19% of Internet users are from the United States (210,080,067 thousand). About 18 countries still do not have an Internet connection. Internet penetration statistics for North Korea are not published.

46. ​​​​The first Internet worm was created by Robert T. Morris, Jr, and attacked more than 6,000 Internet hosts.

47. According to The Economist magazine, the first truly electronic bank on the Internet, called First Virtual Holdings, was opened by Lee Stein in 1994.

48. The ‘Dilbert Zone’ website was the first syndicated comic strip site available on the Internet.

49. Did you know that domain names can be sold for high prices? The most expensive domain to date, ‘sex.com’, was purchased by Escom LLC for $14 million in January 2006. Another was ‘business.com’, which was sold to eCompanies for $7.5 million in 1999.

50. The Internet is the third most used advertising medium in the world, closely surpassing traditional local newspapers and the yellow pages.