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Internet has fully penetrated into our lives. Sometimes it’s hard to imagine how could people live before? We wake up, search the weather, check news, events, we call taxi, book restaurants and hotels, we communicate, make families, hold conferences, study and work through Internet. We can do almost everything without going out, just with a help of global network.

Due to such a holiday, we gathered few interesting WOW-facts about Internet to share with you.

  1. The term “surfing” the internet was coined in 1992 by an upstate New York librarian Jean Armour Polly, aka “Net Mom.”
  2. The most played song on Spotify is “Wake Me Up” by Avicii.
  3. The first tweet was sent on March 21, 2006 by Jack Dorsey01
  4. Mark Zuckerberg’s original Facebook profile number ID is 4.
  5. The first YouTube video was uploaded April 23, 2005. It’s called “Me at the zoo,” and features Jawed Karim, one of the founders, at the San Diego Zoo. http://youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw
  6. A single Google query uses 1,000 computers in 0.2 seconds to retrieve an answer.
  7. 16% to 20% of the searches Google gets each day have never been Googled before.
  8. The inventor of the modern world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth.
  9. Mr. Berners-Lee uploaded the first image to the internet. It is of a joke band of women from the nuclear research lab CERN.02
  10. The first website is still online.
  11. The most expensive keywordfor Google AdWords is “insurance.”
  12. Today, the Internet is 10,026 days old. Check net to keep up to date.
  13. “Gangnam Style” by Psy is still the most viewed YouTube video of all time. It’s been viewed over 2,5 billion times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0.
  14. The first email was sent in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson to himself. He doesn’t remember what it said.
  15. The first spam email was sent in 1978 over ARPNET by a guy named Gary Thuerk. He was selling computers.
  16. The first registered domain was symbolics.com.
  17. This is what Google looked like in 2004:03
  18. This is what Facebook looked like in 2004:04
  19. One million babies have been born from people who met on Match.com
  20. We now spend more time browsing the web on mobile devices than desktop computers.
  21. This is the NeXT computer that Tim Berners-Lee used to create the World Wide Web:05