Did you know when radio took 38 years and TV took 13 years internet took only 4 years to reach 50 million users. Those who have access to it almost use internet every day. Almost 300 million people use internet every day but very few of them will be aware with a myriad of facts about internet. Check out these amazing facts about the incredible internet.
1. 1/7 th of the
world’s population are Facebookers.
2. 57% of internet
users chat more online than they do in real life.
3. 1 in 8 coupes who
married in the US last year met via social media.
4. 1 in 5 divorces are
blamed on facebook.
5. There are over 770
billion facebook page views per month and more than 30 billion pieces of
content shared on it each day.
6. The average
Facebook user is 4.7 degrees away from anyone else on Facebook including the
queen, the president of the USA Johnny Depp and H.H The Dalai Lama.
7. 48% of under 35s
check their Facebook first thing in the morning; 28% before they even get out
of bed.
8. The fastest growing
segment on Facebook is 55-65 year old females.
9. The UK is the
world’s 22nd most populous country but it is the world’s fourth largest
facebook user.
10. More people read
Justin Bieber’s twitter than the global readers of the times, the new york
times, the sun, the wall street journal, the daily telegraph, the washington
pos, daily mail, usa today, the guardian, daily mirror, the independent, daily
express, los angeles times combined.
11. Lady Gaga has more
twitter followers than the global Jewish population.
12. The internet
influences $5.77 spent offline for every $1 spent online
13. Two-third of people
research products and businesses online before engaging with them offline.
14. 31 million people
from the UK regularly shop online. 97% of British females use search engines to
research products and services online. 92% of them regularly buy products online.
15. 91% of
millionaires use search engines to research luxury products online before
deciding on a purchase.
16. Only 12.5% of people are influenced by ads or advertorials in a newspaper
or magazine.
17. Only 18% of TV
advertisements generate a positive ROI.
18. 90% of people who
can fast forward through TV advertisements do.
19. There are now more
mobile phones on the planet than there are human beings.
20. 15% of people use
their mobiles to shop online.
21. Most use Google to
find what they want to buy.
22. The global web
economy has been doubling in size every two years.
23. One of the biggest
Deterrents to a purchaser engaging with a brand online or offline is poor
website design.
24. Only 14% of people
trust advertisements but 83% of people trust the information on Google’s result
pages.
25. Google sees 2.9
billion searches everyday. This is the largest and most targeted marketing
platform in history.
26. Every second there
are 5000 facebook status updates,2000 twitter tweets,34,000google searches.
27. Worldwide Web was
developed in Objective C programming language.
28. Any web policy or
standard do not require the “www” part of a website and it is optional.
29. All three letter
word combinations from aaa.com to zzz.com are already registered as domain
names.
30. People often use
the term internet and World Wide Web without much distinction in every-day
speech however they are two different terms. The Internet is a global data
communications system. It is a hardware and software infrastructure that
provides connectivity between computers. On the contrary, the Web is one of the
services communicated by means of the Internet. It is a collection of
interconnected documents and other resources, linked by hyperlinks and URLs.
31. It is considered
by the researchers that the first search engine was Archie, which was created
in 1990 by Alan Emtage, who was a student at McGill University in Montreal,
Canada.
32. Did you know that
the original URL of Yahoo! was http://akebono.stanford.edu.
33. Google got its
name from the mathematical figure googol, which denotes the number ‘one
followed by a hundred zeros’.
34. The main reason
the Google home page is so bare, is because of the fact that the founders
didn’t know the HTML and just wanted a quick interface. Actually, the submit
button was added later on and in the beginning, hitting the RETURN key was the
only way to burst Google into life.
35. Anthony Greco was the
first person to be arrested for spam at the age of 18, on February 21, 2005.He
was sending unsolicited instant messages
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