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The legacy of Tim Berners-Lee: the Internet in facts and figures

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Few people know that 12 of November is a special date. On this day, in the year 1989, Tim Berners-Lee was the idea of creating one of the greatest inventions in human history —

The World Wide Web.

Revision Droider finds the old man's almost sacred and, on the occasion of the 25 anniversary of his incredible ideas, publishes an interesting compilation of stunning and interesting facts about the Internet.

The world's first website

Тим Бернарс-Ли

The world's first website was hosted Berners-Lee August 6, 1991 onwards on the first Web server available at: info.cern.ch. Resource defines the concept of the World Wide Web, containing instructions on how to install the Web server, browser, etc. and the site became the world's first online catalog, as Berners-Lee has posted a list of links to other sites.

The Internet audience

Аудитория сети интернет

By the end of 2014, the global audience of Internet users reaches a third of the world's population. The highest level of attendance by young people of the Internet sites — 75 per cent — is Europe. The largest audience of Internet users live in the Asia-Pacific region. According to FOM, the audience of Internet users in Russia totals 68.7 million people, of which 56.3 million go to the network every day.

The number of connected devices

Интернет-устройства

In the near future, the number of devices connected to the Internet, will increase by 10 times. Today from 1.5 trillion different items to the World Wide Web is connected only 10 billion (in 2000, the figure was 200 million). It is expected that by the year 2022 to connect another 50 billion physical objects.

Money

Доход интернета

By 2022, the network will help increase the total world corporate income at 21%. In the next 10 years the potential benefit from the Internet to the private sector of the economy will be 14.4 trillion dollars, according to Cisco, which has conducted a study based on the analysis of 27 branches. 27% of the total income will have on manufacturing, 11% for retail, 9% "depart" information services, and a further 9% of the financial sector and insurance.

Number of domain names

Доменное имя

In all 18 common top-level domains on September 30, 2013 year there were 150173219 domain names. It's such a zone, like .aero, .Asia, .biz, .Coop,. cat,. com, .edu, .gov, .info, .int, .jobs, .mobi, .mil, .Museum, .name, .net, .org, .Pro, post, .Tel, .travel and .xxx. On a giant gap domain . com, which accounts for just over 113 million of all domain names. The second most popular is .net domain is 15.5 million registered domains. At the end of 2013, in zone ru has been less than 5 million domain names.

Social networks

социальные сети

According to analysts, on the Internet activity of Russian social networks users on average spend on 121-minute per day. With the older users, so they are more specific: for example, 12-24-year-olds are online an average of 115 minutes a day, 24-34-year-olds, 117 minutes, and users from 35 to 54 years old, 130 minutes a day.

According to the analysis by KPCB, everyday users downloaded 1.8 billion pictures on Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, Snapchat and purchases. 8 every second person on the planet to become part of one of the existing social networks. Surprisingly, the number of followers Ashton Kutcher and Britney Spears is comparable in size with a population of Ireland, Norway, or Panama. More than 90% of the people born in the new century, have accounts on different social networks.


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