10 Interesting Internet Facts
1. Over 400 hours of content is uploaded every single minute on YouTube, which comes out to 24,000 days’ worth of content every minute, equating to 65.7 years’ worth of content every day.
2. In 2015, the number of emails sent and received per day totaled over 205 billion, which means almost 2.4 million emails were sent every second, or some 74 trillion emails were sent every year.
3. This is what happens on the Internet in 60 seconds:
4. More than 317 million new pieces of malware – computer viruses or other malicious software – were released in 2014, meaning nearly one million new threats were released every single day.
5. Around 40% of the world population has an Internet connection today; 20 years ago, it was less than 1%.
6. Google uses enough energy to continuously power 200,000 homes, even though 1.9 MW of solar panels produce over 3 million kWh of clean energy every year at its Mountain View campus.
7. At the end of 2015, 8.1 billion devices – smart phones, tablets, personal computers, TVs, TV-attached devices and audio devices – connected to the Internet. That comes to around four devices per household.
8. NASA has successfully beamed Wi-Fi Internet to the Moon.
9. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com, on March 15, 1985.
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