10 Interesting Facts About The Internet

Today is the age of internet. Many of us are mostly busy on internet. Today when i was surfing through some sites i got to know about these interesting facts. Hope these will be surprising for you as well.

10 Interesting Facts On Internet:

1. About 1/3 of all internet searches are for pornographic items.

2. The internet accrued 50 million users in just 5 years. It took TV 13 years to do that.

3. There are approximately 4,200 new domain names registered every hour, or around 37 million per year.

4. People who use social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter will use 10% of their entire life time on these sites.

5. Of the 247 BILLION email messages sent every day, 81% are pure spam.

6. About 1/6 of Earth’s total population enjoys surfing the internet at least once per month.

7. 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women

8. One out of every 8 married couples in the USA (2011), met online.

9. An estimated 65% of Americans watch TV and use the Internet simultaneously. 80% of all Americans are online.

10. The first ever email was sent in 1971 by Ray Tomilinson, the US programmer who invented the email system. 

The “@” symbol was used to signify that the message was sent to a person instead of a machine.