Fact Of Internet

Fact Of Internet

·         Intergalactic Computer Network can be said to be the first conception of what would eventually become the Internet. The Internet Society has used a short form Galactic Network for the same thing. J.C.R. Licklider used the term at ARPA in 1963, addressing his colleagues as "Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic Computer Network".

·         In 1969, advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) went online connecting four major US universities. The idea was to have a backup in case a military attack destroyed conventional communication system.

·         Jeff Bezos while starting his business could not name his website Cadabra due to copyright issues. He later named it amazon.com in July 1995.

·         Symbolics.com is the First and the Oldest Domain Name.

·         Domain Registration was free until September 14th 1995

·         The first ISP(Internet Service Provider) was CompuServe . It is under AOL, Timer Warner.

·         Every Month , 1 Million Domains are Registered

·         A NeXT Computer used by Tim Berners Lee was the World’s First Web Server.

·         The First website was built by CERN. CERN is the French acronym for European Council for Nuclear. The address of the world’s first web server is http://info.cern.ch/ The URL of the first web page was http://nxoc01.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html. Although this page is not hosted anymore at CERN, a later version of the page is posted at http://www.w3.org/History/199921103hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html.

·         In December 1991, the first institution in the US to adopt the web was the Stanford Linear Accelerator center (SLAC). True to the Berners-Lee vision, it was used to display an online catalog of SLAC’s documents.

·         World Wide Web was programmed with Objective C .

·         Marc Andreessen started Netscape and released Netscape Navigator in 1994. during the height of its popularity, Netscape Navigator accounted for almost 90 per cent of all web use.

·         The first graphical Web browser to become truly popular was Marc Andresen and Jamie Zawinski’s NCSA Mosaic. It was the first browser made available for Window’s, Mac and Unix X windows System with the first version appearing in MARCH 1993

·         April 30, 1993 is an important date for the Web because on that day, CERN announced that anyone may use WWW technology freely.

·         It was in the Conference Dinner in May 26, 1994 where the first Best of WWW awards were given. It was by pure coincidence that the jazz band that played during the awards was called “Wolfgang and the Were Wolves”.

·         The development of standards for the World Wide Web is managed by the W3C or the World Wide Web consortium. The W3C was founded in October, 1994 and headed by Tim Berners-Lee.

·         The first White House website was launched during the Clinton-Gore administration on October 21, 1994. Coincidentally, the site www.whitehouse.com (Whitehouse Official site is Whitehouse.gov) site is linked to a pornography web site. In 2006, PC World ranked Whitehouse.com #13 on its list "The 25 Worst Web Sites"

·         Open source technology dominates the web. The most common software used for web serving is called LAMP standing for the Linux operating system, apache web server, MySQL database and PHP scripting language.

·         The blue colored links on a web page is just a browser default because way back on the days when monitors only had 16 colours, blue was the darkest colour that did not affect text legibility.

·         All three letter word combinations from aaa.com to zzz.com are already registered as domain names.

·         Microsoft released Internet Explorer on 1995. This event initiated the browser wars. By bundling internet explorer with the Windows operating system, by 2002, Internet Explorer became the most dominant web browser with a market share over 95 per cent.

·         As of July 2009, Microsoft Internet Explorer accounted for 67.68 per cent of all browsers used Mozilla Firefox was used by 22.47 per cent of all users.

·         270,000 words a minute are written on Blogger.[ This Sentence is also included in it   ]

·         4.5 billion Apps have been installed from the Android Market

·         Sweden has the highest percentage of its population i.e. 76.9 per cent hooked on to the Internet. In contrast, the world average is 11.9 per cent and India has a poor 7.2 per cent.

·         The world ‘e-mail’ has been banned by the French Ministry of culture. They are required to use the word ‘Courriel’ instead, which is the French equivalent of Internet. This move became the subject of ridicule from the cyber community in general.

·         The term Internet and World Wide Web are often used in every-day speech without much distinction. However, the Internet and the World Wide Web are not one and the same. The Internet is a global data communications system. It is a hardware and software infrastructure that provides connectivity between computers. In contrast, the Web is one of the services communicated via the Internet. It is a collection of interconnected documents and other resources, linked by hyperlinks and URLs.

·         In February 2009, Twitter had a monthly growth (of users) of over 1300 per cent several times more than Facebook..

·         The cost of transmitting information has fallen dramatically. A trillion bits of information from Boston to Los Angeles from $150,000 in 1970 to 12 cents today. E-mailing a 40 page document from Chile to Kenya costs less than 10 cents, faxing it about $10, sending it by courier $50.

·         Raymond Samuel Tomlinson was the first person on records to have sent an email. Raymond Samuel Tomlinson is a US programmer who implemented an email system in 1971 on the ARPANET. His email address was: tom-linson@bbn.tenexa. He had invented this software that allowed messages to be sent between computers. He is also credited with the use of the @ in email addresses. The first email Tomlinson sent was a test e-mail. It was not preserved and Tomlinson describes it as insignificant, something like "QWERTYUIOP".

·         Counting only domain name sites with content, Netcraft has tracked the growth of the internet since 1995 and says of the 100 million; around 48 million are active sites that are updated regularly. When it began observing sites through the domain name system in 1995, there were 18,000 web sites in existence.

·         Carnivore was a system implemented by the Federal Bureau of Investigation that was designed to monitor email and electronic communications

·         A NeXT computer used by Tim Berners-Lee was the world’s first web server.

·         The inspiration for the brand name Yahoo! Came from a word made up by Jonathan Swift in his book Gulliver’s Travels. A Yahoo was a person who was ugly and not a human in appearance.

·         In April 1994, he co-created with Jerry Yang an Internet website called "Jerry and Dave's Guide to the World Wide Web", consisting of a directory of other websites. It was renamed "Yahoo!" (an exclamation). Yahoo! became very popular, and Filo and Yang realized the business potential and co-founded Yahoo! Inc.

·         Lee Stein invented the first online electronic bank ON October 15, 1994 entitled, "First Virtual Holdings".

·         In 1995, Bob Metcalfe coined the phrase 'The Web might be better than sex'.

·         Around 75 per cent of the music that is available for download has never been purchased and it is costing money just to be on the server.

·         According to AT&T vice president Jim Cicconi, 8 hours of video is uploaded into YouTube every minute. This was on April 2008. On May 21, 2009, YouTube received 20 hours of video content per minute.

·         It took the web only 4 years to reach 50 million users. Radio took 38 years while TV made it in 13 years.

·         The first internet worm was created by Robert Morris AND LAUNCHED ON November 2, 1988, Jr, and attacked more than 6,000 Internet hosts.

·         Programmer Bram Cohen designed BitTorrent protocol in April 2001 and released the first available version on July 2, 2001. Currently, numerous BitTorrent clients are available for a variety of computing platforms, including an official one released by BitTorrent, Inc. it is one of the most common protocols for transferring large files and it has been estimated that, collectively, peer-to-peer networks have accounted for approximately 43% to 70% of all Internet traffic (depending on geographical location) as of February 2009

·         The first search engine for Gopher files was called Veronica, created by the University of Nevada System Computing Services group.

·         It is believed that Subhash Ghai's film Taal was the first Bollywood movie to be widely promoted on the internet.

·         Satyam Online became the first private ISP in December 1998 to offer internet connection in India.

·         Anthony Greco, aged 18, became the first person arrested for spam (unsolicited instant messages) on February 16, 2004

·         The longest phone cable is a submarine cable called FLAG (Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe). It spans 16,800 miles from Japan to the United Kingdom and can carry 600,000 calls at a time. The cable is operated by India's Flag Telecom, a fully owned subsidiary of Reliance Communications

·         There are over 100 million websites, 74 per cent are in the commercial or .com domain.

·         Wikipedia is the 7th most popular website in the world. The English version of Wikipedia has more than 2.3 million articles.

·         There are more than 800,000 developers building applications for Facebook

·         The total number of Internet users in the world is 1,733,993,741