29 facts about NASA
The Cold War, although a grim period in world history, brought an intense rivalry in a space race between the U.S., and the Soviet Union. As a result, ...
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. Initially, it was intended to serve as a network for the exchange of documents, mainly between scientific institutions. However, a multitude of ingenious people saw much more in it, and so began to develop the first instant messengers, online stores, educational video, and music services, Today we can’t imagine life without this medium–people aged 16-64 spend browsing an Internet on average 6 hours and 44 minutes a day.
The design of a global network of interconnected computers was developed by J. Licklider in 1960; two years later, at the request of the US Armed Forces, Paul Baran developed the first design of such a network aimed at exchanging digital data.
The first connection realized with the prototype of today’s network was between the University of California and Stanford Research Institute. By December 1969, the University of Utah and the University of California were also plugged into the network.
It is not known what the final message was to be because the system crashed after sending the G character.
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.
He doesn’t remember its exact content but said it was something like “QWERTYUIOP.”
It was registered on 15th March 1985. Today it serves as a commemorative site for the event.
After all these years, it is still available and can be visited here.
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.
In 2020, 96 percent of Americans made at least one purchase online.
Globally registered domains are now nearly 370 million.
Between 2000 and 2020, the number of Internet users increased by 1266 percent.
According to analysis, the 50-50 split in traffic from computers vs. traffic from smartphones will continue in the coming years.
This means that every minute more than 550 people create an account on a social network.
In second place is YouTube (2 billion) followed by Instagram (1.15 billion), LinkedIn (766 million), TikTok (689 million), Twitter (330 million), and Snapchat (294 million).
It was bought out by Google in November 2006 for $1.65 billion. In its first months of existence, the site had about 30.000 visitors per month. By the beginning of 2013, YouTube already had more than a billion monthly visitors, and by 2021, 1.86 billion.
The variety of materials is huge, which allows everyone to find something for themselves.
According to the survey, 82 percent of users use the platform for entertainment, 18 percent follow profiles of companies and brands, 7 percent use it to improve their skills and 8 percent use it to communicate with loved ones. One in three women watch tutorials on YouTube at least once a week on clothing, makeup, and taking care of their appearance in the broadest sense.
Second place goes to Netflix, which has 12 times fewer users. Third place goes to Vimeo.
