INVESTIGATING THE SOCIAL POWER OF SOCIAL MEDIA

Internet is a vast network where countless ideas resides.

ICT have been a very big help in our lives such as communicating and gathering informations through different platforms. Nowadays even a 1 year old knows how devices work. Such powerful weapon ICT is, that can help with education and for daily basis. But do you ever wonder where did ICT came from? Who discovered it? Who is the first man to get his hand on such technology? And other unworldly questions that might or just pop up in our minds

Here are some “mind blowing facts” about ICT

• Do you know that the internet is 11107 days old? (well now you know) approximately 30 years and 43 days from now. Internet is older than I am, how bout you? If you’re reading this later than the date published you can check the latest update on <://howoldistheinter.net/
• You might have already used browsers like Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer but have you ever heard of Mosiac? Mosiac is the very first and popular web browser that launched in the year of 1993 and was a major part of internet till 1997
• It is a known fact that the internet has taken over TV at a fast pace, but the figures will amaze you. The Internet has gained about 5 million users in just 5 years. It took 13 years for TV to gather these many users.
• There are over 1 billion internet users today which are about 20% of world’s population.
• An average surfing session lasts about only 51 minutes.
• Sweden has the most number of internet users across the world with about 75% of the population using it.
• The satellite-based internet availability has made it possible to access the internet all over the world. Still there are certain countries like North Korea and China who are denied the access by the government.
• It is estimated that people who use social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter are likely to spend their 10% of lifetime on it.
• Asia is a continent with the largest number of internet users i.e. about 42% and about 80% of the world population still not using it.
• A good figure of 19% married couple meets online, making it a suitable marriage bureau.
• The first tweet was sent by Jock Dorsey in the year 2002, March 21.
• The first ever image on the internet was uploaded by Mr. Berners Lee. It was an image of a joke band of women. The picture was uploaded from the nuclear research lab CERN.
• About 16% to 20% of the Google searches are the searches which have never been Googled before. (Now this is news!)
• Mr. Wilhite mentions the correct pronunciation of GIF as ‘jiff’. (Steve Wilhite is an American computer scientist who worked at CompuServe and was the primary creator of the GIF file format)
• ‘Insurance’ is the most expensive Google Adwords keyword.
• The first email was sent Ray Tomlinson to himself in the year 1971, he doesn’t remember the contents though. (How could he remember I even forget my name sometimes)
• The fastest rate to log in to Gmail is recorded as 1.16 seconds.
• We spend more time browsing on mobile devices than on computers.
• The computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in 1963. It was made out of wood (weird, huh).
• The first and still the oldest domain name to be registered is Symbolics.com, it was created on March 15th, 1985.
• HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple have one thing in common – apart from the obvious that they are IT companies. They were all started in garages.
• The first microprocessor was the 4004, Intel had initially designed it for a calculator, and no one had any idea to what it would lead.
• The 12 engineers at IBM that developed the IBM PC had a code name – “The Dirty Dozen”.
• The first hard disk drive was created in 1979 by Seagate. Its capacity was a whopping (not) 5 MB.
• There are over 20 billion web pages on the internet, and that number is rapidly growing every day. Also, there are over 2 billion internet users worldwide at present.
• The two main components in IT (Information Technology) are hardware and software. But there is also a lesser known ‘grey’ component. This is the software that is stored in hardware and cannot be modified easily. It is known as ‘firmware’.
• The computing power in today’s cell phones is much higher than the processing power of all the computers in the Apollo 11 Lunar Lander that put 2 men on the moon.

        The Internet has many more wonders than strands of our hair. Comment down below what do you think of internet and how do you use it in your daily life.

Thats it for today see you in the next blog

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