TECH TRENDS; Interesting facts about the internet! The current numbers of users on the Internet is 2.2 billion! In 2006, this number was only 600 million. So in a decade, internet users have grown by almost 370% Facebook ingests over 500 Terabytes of Data every day. This includes 2.7 million Likes and 300 million photo uploads, daily! Every month, Google, the world’s leading Search engine handles 100 Billion Searches! That equates to almost 40,000 every second. The first Webcam was created at the University of Cambridge, UK. Can you guess what was it used for? Well, they used it to monitor a coffee pot! Internet usage is highest in Iceland, where 97.8% of its population uses the internet. In USA, it was 78.3%, China 38.4% and North Korea lowest at 0%. How much does the internet weigh? The weight of all information on the internet is 0.2 millionths of an Ounce. That is similar to the weight of the smallest possible grain of sand.
Posted on: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:07:52 +0000