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Wednesday, 17 December 2025
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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Kerosene lamp
Oil lamps have been displaced by electricity.
However, they are still widely used in areas without electric lighting. The cost and danger of kerosene lighting are an ongoing problems in many countries.
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 ...
Steel
Tungsten steel contains 2% to 18% of this element. It is extremely resistant to heat, corrosion and wear.
Tungsten is one of the oldest elements used in steel alloys. It is used in many industries that rely ...
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
The first all-steel bridge is the Eads Bridge in St. Louis, USA.
Construction began in 1867 and was completed in 1874 at a cost of about $10 million. It is a combine ...
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 ...
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.
Kerosene lamp
The Piarist Fathers' hospital in Lviv helped Łukasiewicz popularize his invention.
On July 31, 1853, in Lviv, doctor Zaorski, a surgeon, operated on his patient Władysław Holecki. The operation occurred at night in a room lit by one of Ignacy Łukasiewicz's first kerosene lamps.
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
The aircraft was designed for a 23-person crew.