Technology

Tuesday, 10 November 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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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 ...
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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.
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Internet
The author of the first website was Tim Berners-Lee, who published it in December 1990.
After all these years, it is still available and can be visited here.
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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Kerosene lamp
There are several types of kerosene lamps.
These include: Flat wick lamp - which burns kerosene drawn in through the wick by capillary action ...
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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 ...
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Internet
The first image on the Internet is a work of art made in Photoshop and exported to .gif format.
It depicts four women, members of the Geneva CERN lab’s comedy troupe Les Horrible Cernettes. As with the first website, it was posted by Tim Berners-Lee.
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Internet
Almost 300 million new users join social media every year.
This means that every minute more than 550 people create an account on a social network.
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24 facts about Antonov An-225 Mriya
24 facts about Antonov An-225 Mriya
Like a phoenix from ashes
It is the heaviest though not the largest of the aircraft constructed to date. Although it was created in the communist realities of the USSR, and its ...
14 facts about steel
14 facts about steel
Just a bit of carbon changes everything
Steel is a highly versatile and durable material used in a wide range of industries, including construction, automotive, aerospace, and manufacturing. ...
12 facts about Three Gorges Dam
12 facts about Three Gorges Dam
The biggest hydroelectric power plant on Earth
The Three Gorges Dam is most certainly one of the biggest undertakings in human history. Constructed on the Yangtze River in China, it is the largest ...
13 facts about Kerosene lamp
13 facts about Kerosene lamp
A Polish invention
The kerosene lamp was the invention of a brilliant pharmacist, a Pole, Ignacy Lukasiewicz. As an employee of a pharmacy selling kerosene for medical p ...