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10 Interesting Facts You Didn’t Know About The Internet by Nobody: 9:38pm On May 05, 2013
1. Most famous social networking website
Facebook founded by Mark
Zuckerberg has more than
1,110 millions registered user
as of March 31 2013. I hardly
know anyone who does not have Facebook account.
2. A news website contains as much information as a person
of the 18th century could
learn. According to the
researcher Marting Gilbert
from university of Southern
California, 18th century person could master no more than 50
books in a lifetime.
Whereas today, an average
person is able to absorb the
information stored in 600 000
books.
3. Hong kong is the worlds fastest internet place. It has
blazing fast internet, an
average peak speed of 54.1
megabits per seconds. At this
speed you can download HD
movie in about 4 minutes. worlds fastest internet speed country.
4. Search engine giant Google can handle 35 billion queries in
a month.
5. Every 8th couple of today met online through internet.
6. The first electronic smiley appeared in 1979 when Kevin
McKenzie tried expressing his
emotion by electronic means.
The very first electronic look
like -) then 3 years later Scott
Fahlman added colon “smiley-” and it took form - as we use to do
now a days.
7. Today 81% of emails are spam.
8. For the year 2012, China accounted for 41% of the
world’s attack traffic during
the fourth quarter of 2012
making China top source of
cyber assaults.
9. United States is the largest country on Facebook, India
standing 3rd. Croatia is the
fastest growing Facebook
country over past week. Largest country on Facebook.
10. All Internet is 4 exabytes of information. By the way, 1
exabyte = 1000 petabytes; 1
petabyte = 1000 terabytes; 1
terrabyte = 1000 gigabytes.
Each year, this amount is
doubled.
http://techfeel.in/2013/05/10-interesting-facts-you-didnt-know-about-the-internet/
Re: 10 Interesting Facts You Didn’t Know About The Internet by pendusky(m): 10:08pm On May 05, 2013
interesting though, buh I was neva told that 1000gb = 1terabyte,

instead 1024gb=1tb...be guided.
Re: 10 Interesting Facts You Didn’t Know About The Internet by strategy02: 10:28pm On May 05, 2013
Pls I wantt to knw d code for glo modem 100 or 200 subscription data plan

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