Since the founding of 1960, the Internet has been transformed from a military experiment into a gigantic, vibrant, vibrant organization full of paradoxes and subculture. With the World Wide Web launched before 24 years, the Internet is watching the explosive development of technology, business and culture.
Below are some of the most bizarre events that describe the Internet and the World Wide Web.
1. The Internet requires about 50 million horsepower for electricity
With an estimated number of 8,7 billion online devices connected to the Internet, the electricity required to run the entire system for one day is enormous. According to Russell Seitz and Michael Stevens's calculation, they need a machine with a horsepower of 50 million HP to produce the electricity that is needed to keep the Internet online.
2. They need 2 billions of electrons for a single Email message.
According to Michael Stevens and his calculations, an 50 kilobyte email uses the 8 billion electron footprint. The number sounds enormous, but the electrons weigh almost nothing. 8000000000 of these weighs less than one quad-trillionth of an ounce.
3. From 7 billions of people on planet Earth, 2,4 billions use the Internet
Most of these calculations can not be accurately verified, but statistics indicate that 2 billions of people use the Internet and the Web on a weekly basis.
4. The Internet weighs as much as a strawberry
Russel Seitz is a physicist who discovered some very accurate numbers. According to Seitz, the billions of billions of electrons that make up data on the move on the Internet weigh about 50 grams. That is, the weight of a strawberry.
5. Over 8,7 dvd cameras are connected to the Internet.
Smartphones, tablets, desktop computers, servers, wireless routers and hotspots, car GPS units, wristwatches, refrigerators and more: the Internet is made up of billions of gadgets. We expect them to grow to 40 billion gadgets by 2020.
6. Every 60 second, they are uploading YouTube 72 hours of video.
Of those 72 hours, most are videos of cats, Harlem Shake dancing, and stupid things no one cares about. Like it or not, people love to share their amateur videos in the hope that they will go viral, and become famous.
7. Electrons move only a few tens of meters before they stop.
Yes, an electron does not travel very far through the wires and transistors on our computers. It moves around twelve meters, and then the energy and signal are transferred to the next device on the network. Each device, in turn, carries the signal to the adjacent electron set and the cycle is repeated in the chain. This self-consumption occurs in fractions of a second.
8. The Internet of 5 million Terabytes has a volume smaller than a grain of sand.
Imagine the mass of hard disk and transistor data, assemble 5 million TB and the mass will be less than a grain of sand.
9. Over North America 78% use the Internet
The majority of Americans use the Web as a daily part of their lives.
10. 1.7 billion of Internet users are in Asia
More than half of the normal population of the Web lives in some parts of Asia: Japan, South Korea, India, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore. All of the above countries have a very high adoption rate. Although there is an increasing number of websites written in Asian languages, the predominant language of the web continues to be English.
11. The best connected cities are in South Korea and Japan
According to Akamai, the global network infrastructure of internet cables and wireless signal is faster in South Korea and Japan. The average bandwidth speed reaches 22 Mbps, far above the United States, with an average of 8,4 Mbps.
12. More than half of the web traffic is for streaming and file sharing
Sharing or sharing files music(see P2P), movies, software, books, photos, and other digital data take a lot of bandwidth. Streaming videos from: YouTube Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify also need a lot of bandwidth.
13. Websites – businesses Online Dating earns over 1 billion dollars a year.
Σύμφωνα με το Reuters και το PC World, οι στατιστικές για τα κέρδη των online dating sites στις USA είναι πολύ υψηλές. Η χρήση του World Wide Web για αγάπη, φιλία και έρωτα κοστίζει ακριβά.
