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Tuesday, 19 May 2026
18 facts about Internet
18 facts about Internet
A global network of unlimited possibilities
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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Internet
As of June 2021, the resources of the global Internet amounted to 1.86 billion pages.
Globally registered domains are now nearly 370 million.
Internet
The most popular sites in the world are US giants.
The first place goes to Google followed by YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, and Instagram. Als ...
Kerosene lamp
In the first half of the 19th century, intensive attempts were made to obtain more efficient and cheaper fuel than the various types of oil and their mixtures used to date.
To this end, research was conducted on crude oil, from which kerosene was obtained by distillation. ...
Steel
The most produced type of steel is carbon steel. It is made of carbon and iron and accounts for about 90% of the world's steel production.
It can have aditional elements but in small quantities. Carbon steel is used in the construction of ...
Antonov An-225 Mriya
On 30th August 2016, the Airspace Industry Corporation of China signed an agreement with Antonov Corporation to complete the second machine and start production of more, with upgraded avionics and a different propulsion system.
Internet
The first registered Internet domain was symbolics.com.
It was registered on 15th March 1985. Today it serves as a commemorative site for the event.
Internet
The first email was sent in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson to… himself.
He doesn’t remember its exact content but said it was something like “QWERTYUIOP.”
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 ...
Kerosene lamp
After an unsuccessful first attempt to use kerosene in a structurally unsuitable oil lamp, Łukasiewicz and the tinsmith Bratkowski constructed a prototype kerosene lamp.
This lamp was massive, consisting of a cylindrical tin tank for kerosene. It served as a protection ...
Three Gorges Dam
The idea of building a dam on the Yangtze River arose in 1918.
Sun Yat-sen, the first provisional president of the Republic of China, theorized about constructing ...