21 Facts About The Internet
You probably use it every day but how well do you know the Internet?
Ever wonder how the Internet got started in the first place and why ?
How big the Internet really is ? How many present users there are on the Internet ?
The average time spent on a website ?
Here are 21 facts you might or might not want to know about the Internet.

1. Who coined the phrase 'World Wide Web'?
Tim Berners-Lee in 1990. He's also considered by most people as the person who started the Internet rolling.

2. How did the Internet Start and Why?
the Internet all started with the time-sharing of IBM computers in the early 1960’s at universities such as Dartmouth and Berkeley in the United States. People would share the same computer for their computing tasks. the Internet also received help from Sputnik! After this Russian Satellite was launched in 1957, President Eisenhower formed ARPA to advance computer networking and communication.
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3. Who was J.C.R. Licklider ?
Licklider is often referred to as the father of the Internet because his ideas of interactive computing and a "Galactic Network" were the seeds for the Internet . His ideas would be developed through DARPA, (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency) in 1962. Later he would help form ARPANET and the Internet was on it's way.
Vinton Gray Cerf was another founding father of the Internet . He played a key role in the creation of the Internet by developing the TCP/IP protocols we use for the Internet .

4. What was ARPANET?
ARPANET stands for 'Advanced Research Projects Agency Network' Came about in the arena of Sputnik and the cold war. The military needed a method of communicating and sharing all the information on
computers for research and development. It would also be a handy communication system if all traditional ways were wiped out in a nuclear attack not a girls-playground.

5. What was the First long distance Connection?
In 1965 using a low speed dial-up telephone line, MIT researcher Lawrence G. Roberts working with Thomas Merrill, connected the TX-2 computer in Massachusetts to the Q-32 in California. The phone lines weren't quite up to the task!

6. Who was Leonard Kleinrock?
Kleinrock came up with the theory of packet switching, the basic form of the Internet connections. With a group of UCLA graduate students on Oct. 29, 1969, Kleinrock connected with the Stanford Research Institute but as they typed in the G in LOGIN -- the system crashed!

7.What is an Ethernet?
It's a protocol or system for a set of computer networking technologies for local area networks (LANs), the origins of which came from Bob Metcalfe's Harvard's dissertation on "Packet Networks."

8. When was the first mouse introduced?
The first computer mouse was introduced in 1968 by Douglas Engelbart at the Fall Joint Computer Expo
in San Francisco.

9. Did Al Gore really invent the Internet?
No, but give credit where credit is due. He did the most of any elected official to actively promote the Internet . However, he wasn't even in Congress when ARPANET was formed in 1969 or even when the term 'the Internet ' came into use in 1974. Gore was first elected in 1976.
Gore himself may be the cause of this Urban Legend or the Internet myth - during a Wolf Blitzer CNN interview on March 9, 1999 - Al Gore did say: "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet ."
Causing himself some ridicule but also paving the way for such future one-liners as: "I invented the environment!"

10. Who coined the phrase 'information superhighway'?
Wikipedia says Nam June Paik coined the phrase "information superhighway" in 1974.
Al Gore popularized the phrase in the early 1990's.

11. Which decade really saw the explosion of the Internet ?
The 1990s. the Internet exploded into the mainstream with the release of the first popular web browser Mosaic in 1993.

12. How fast is the Internet growing?
Very fast! It took 38 years for radio to reach 50 million users, 13 years for TV, and only 5 years for the Internet .

13. Number of the Internet Users and Breakdown.
the Internet is roughly 35% English, 65% Non-English with the Chinese at 14%. Yet only 13% of world's population,812 million are the Internet users as of Dec. '04. North America has the highest continental concentration with 70% of the people using the Internet .

14. Country with the highest percentage of the Internet users?
Sweden at 75%.

15. How big is the Internet surfing world?
Google's index now stands at over 8 billion pages. There are now over a Billion the Internet Users and that number is growing rapidly.

16. What was the Internet first index called?
Archie, other than library catalogues, this was the first index created in 1989 by Peter Deutsch at McGill in Montreal. Although it spouted such others as Veronica and Jug head, Archie was short for Archive and had nothing to do with the comic strip.
Backrub was the original name for Google! Larry Page and Sergey Brin used this term for their search engine in 1996, Google as we know it debuted in 1998. The name Google is a twist on the word Googol, a number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros.

17. Who coined the phrase 'the Internet might be better than sex'?
Bob Metcalfe in 1995.

18. What does HTTP stand for?
HyperText Transfer Protocol - it's the protocol for moving files across the Internet ; it requires two client programs. The HTTP client and the server.

19. What is an ISP?
Internet Service Provider - This is the service or company you use to access the Internet .

20. What is HTML?
Hypertext Mark up Language - it's the coded format language for transmitting and creating hypertext web pages.

21. What are your average surfing habits according to Nielsen the Internet Ratings?
Each month you usually visit 59 domains on the Internet , view 1,050 pages allocating 45
seconds for each page and spend about 25 hours doing all the Internet activity!

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