Some Interesting Facts About Computer Networking

Some interesting facts about computer networking are:

• Internet was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989.
• Internet is controlled by 75 million servers.
• Backbone of internet is made by 550, 000 miles of underwater cable.
• About one billion computer systems are connected to internet.
• About 3.2 billion people use the internet from which 1.7 billion internet users are Asians.
• Internet consists of five billion computing devicessuch as computers, phones, modems, switches, routers etc.
• According to Google, Internet consists of 5 million Terabytes of data.
• If the internet goes down for a day, approximately 200 billion emails and 3 billion Google search would have to wait.
• Approximately 204 million emails per minute are send over Internet. 70% of them are spam.
• 269 billion emails are sent per day.
• 30, 000 websites are hacked every day.
• 50 million horsepower is required by the internet to keep running in the current state.
• Approximately 9 million adults in Britain and 1/3rd of italians have never used the internet while China has treatment camps for internet addicts.
• Microsoft has more servers than Google. Microsoft owns over one million servers while Google has 900, 000.
• Internet bots and malware generate 61.5% or nearly two-thirds of all the website traffic.
• Approximately 1.7 trillion euro dollar worth of funds is spent online.
• Tim Berners-Lee was knighted by Queen Elizabeth.
• An email takes around 2 billion electrons to produce.
• Online dating generates approximately $1 billion dollars every year.
• Qwerty was designed to slow you down so that keys would not jam.