Lesser Known Facts About The Internet

All reading this now use the Internet.Lets have a look at some lesser known facts about internet.

• The first message ever relayed on the internet was"LOG".

They had intended to type LOGIN , but after three letters the server crashed and only LOG was transmitted.

It was at the MIT in 1960.

• The first website was http://info.cern.ch/  , it went online on  August 6 1991.

• Over 75% of the total email messages are spam.Over 247 billion email  messages are  sent daily.

• The internet contains 5 Billion terabytes of data  that could fit into  200 million Blu Ray discs.

• The NEXT computer which was used by Tim Berners Lee (founder of WWW) became the first web server.

• The first Internet search engine was Archie created in 1990.

• An average webpage visit less than a minute.

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