When was the internet first developed?

• The development of the internet commenced in the late 1950s. The groundwork for the development of the internet was developed in the United States by DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, as a means to share information on defense research between involved universities and defense research facilities. Originally, internet capabilities included email and FTP sites. It was used as a forum for discussion for scientists and was originally called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork). ARPANET was created in 1969.

Which country has the most internet users?

• At the start of 2009, approximately 300 million people in China use the internet, which is approximately 25% of the country’s population. The United States is second in the number of users with approximately 228 million or approximately 74% of the total population in the United States.

Which country has the highest percentage of internet users in the world?

• South Korea has the world’s fastest average internet connection at 20.4 megabytes per second. The United States has a average speed of 5.1 megabytes per second.

Which country has the fastest average internet connection?

• Greenland is the country with the highest percentage of internet users at 92.3% of the total population of the country.

Which website gets the most traffic?

• 33% of the global internet users utilize google.com on a regular basis, making it the most visited website in the world.

What website do people spend the most time on?

Facebook.com has 300 million users worldwide. The average time spent on the website per user each month is approximately 4 hours and 39 minutes.

How much data is stored on Facebook.com?

• It is estimated that 850 million photos are posted to the site every month. The company purchases a new storage system on a weekly basis—at a cost of about $2 million each time—in order to keep up with content uploaded to the website. User data uploaded to the website grows at a rate of 500 gigabytes per day. Facebook is estimating that 100 billion photos will have been uploaded to the website by the end
  of 2009.

How many emails are sent in a day?

200+ billion messages per day are sent, meaning more than 2.3 million emails are sent every second. Approximately 70% to 72% are estimated to be spam and viruses.