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Saturday, 14 November 2026
18 facts about Internet
18 facts about Internet
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The internet is now more than 30 years old. During this time, it has developed in a direction unimaginable to those who witnessed its creation. Initia ...

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Antonov An-225 Mriya
The aircraft was designed for a 23-person crew.
Steel
More than 1.9 billion tons of steel are produced annually.
This means that approximately 5.2 million metric tons of steel are produced every day.
Kerosene lamp
Naphtha, one of the lighter (0.78-0.81 g/cm3) fractions of petroleum, is almost as old as medicine.
Its use is first reported as early as the ninth century by the Persian physician, alchemist, and phi ...
Antonov An-225 Mriya
The aircraft will be rebuilt. The new machine will incorporate in its design elements of the copy destroyed by the Russian military.
The reconstruction was announced by the general director of the Antonov concern, Yevhen Havrylov.The ...
Steel
Mangalloy is an alloy steel containing 11 to 15% manganese.
Manganese is added to steel to make it tougher, stronger and more resistant to wear and abrasion. It ...
Internet
As recently as 2009, only 0.7 percent of Internet traffic came from mobile devices, today it is more than 50 percent.
According to analysis, the 50-50 split in traffic from computers vs. traffic from smartphones will continue in the coming years.
Internet
The Internet, as we know it today, often referred to as the World Wide Web, is nothing more than a system of hypertext documents presented to the user via a web browser.
Almost every page on the Internet is based on the HTML meta-language (some on XHTML) enriched with style sheets to help give it the right look.
Antonov An-225 Mriya
The aircraft is powered by six D-18T engines, each with a thrust of 229.5 kN.
The engines were designed in the 1970s and the first test of a full-size unit was conducted on 19th ...
Three Gorges Dam
Its primary purpose was flood control.
The Yangtze River's occasional flooding caused both mild and major devastation in the basin area. Th ...
Antonov An-225 Mriya
Luggage racks are being designed that will be hooked up in place of the Buran shuttle’s hitches.
They will be used for transporting goods that will not fit in the cargo hold of the An-225.