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Saturday, 16 May 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
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.
Steel
Modern steelmaking began in 1855.
The father of the process was Sir Henry Bessemer, an English inventor. His method was widely used fo ...
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.
Three Gorges Dam
Although the construction increased control over flooding, the volume of water held by the dam increased the number of earthquakes.
The Western Sichuan region of China was already an earthquake-prone area, but since the dam was constructed, it actually increased the number of geological disasters.
Internet
The first message sent using ARPANET was “LOG.”
It is not known what the final message was to be because the system crashed after sending the G character.
Antonov An-225 Mriya
Loading of the aircraft is possible only after lifting the nose of the fuselage. The cargo hold has a capacity of 1300 cubic meters and the maximum cargo weight is 250 tons.
Unlike the An-124, the Mryia has two vertical stabilizers on the tail, allowing it to transport extremely heavy loads that would negatively affect the aerodynamics of a classic “single” tail.
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 ...
Antonov An-225 Mriya
The aircraft was originally intended to transport the Soviet space shuttle “Buran.”
For this reason, the aircraft’s fuselage is equipped with special mounts on the “roof” and the twin ...
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.