Technology Facts About Internet

It would take 76 work days (8 hours a day) for the average person to read the Terms and Conditions they agree to in a year.

Yahoo! was originally called 'Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web'.

A famous comparison claims radio took 38 years to reach 50 million users, television took 13 years, and the World Wide Web just 4 years—though these widely-cited numbers from a Morgan Stanley report lack precise methodology, they illustrate a real trend of accelerating technology adoption.

There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.

E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.

CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".

IMDb is one of the oldest websites on the internet, and began on Usenet in 1990 as a list of "actresses with beautiful eyes".

MDIF, a New York based non-profit organisation, is planning to beam free Wi-Fi to the entire world from space.

There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.

On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.

The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.

One of the longest early domain name disputes was the fight for PETA.org. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sued Michael Doughney, who had registered the domain for a parody site called 'People Eating Tasty Animals' — the legal battle lasted from 1995 to 2000.

The first banner advertising was used in 1994.

Kissenger is a pig-shaped robotic device that transmits kiss sensations over the internet using pressure sensors and actuators, allowing long-distance couples to share physical affection.

Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.

In 2013, AOL declared that they still made over $500 million a year through dial-up internet subscriptions.

Anthony Greco, aged 18, became the first person arrested for spim (unsolicited instant messages) on February 21,2005.

The creator of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, has never profited directly from his invention—and he even gave away the code for free so the internet could grow.