Interesting facts about the Internet

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Interesting facts about the Internet

• The world's first online website http://info.cern.ch was created on August 1991, 6. It consisted of a single web page of 153 words.

• More than half of all internet users have their own accounts on Facebook.

• As of early July 2014, the number of pages indexed was 3,32 billion, according to worldwidewebsize.com.

• The Internet has amassed the first 50 million users in 5 years. It took television 13 years to do that.

• Sending the first emoticon is associated with the name Kevin Mackenzie (1979). He had a very simple appearance. Familiar to us? which appeared 3 years later.

• Internet-based technology emerged in the 1960s, it was developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The first computer network, called Arpanet, was created for government purposes.

• The most expensive domain name is Vacationrentals.com. It was sold in 2007 for $ 35 million.