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In 1969, four American universities, supported by the Army, created the world's first computer network, called the Advanced Projects Agency Network (ARPANET). This is how the INTERNET was born.
The history of the internet
Since we noticed increased interest in the article about the history of the social network Facebook, we decided to occasionally present to you the history of things around us, things that did not exist a few years ago, but without which we cannot imagine our present life.
Today we have chosen the history of the Internet.
Perhaps few people know that its appearance is due to the American Army, which created a research network consisting of only 4 computers. The initial name was Arpanet, and it took 15 years to be renamed Internet, when it connected 1000 points, represented by independent and university research laboratories.
Internet and social networks The year 1998 marked reaching 50 million users, with one server for every 2 users.
If in 2009 there were 1 billion users, three years later their number doubled, reaching 2.1 billion. In just one year their number grew to 2.7 billion, which represents over 47% of the world's population.
Regarding the number of existing websites, the situation evolved rapidly. In 1993 there were only 130 websites. In 3 years it reached 100,000 websites, and by 2012 there were 634 million.
If these numbers seem too large to you, you should also see the following…
The first email was sent in 1971. A great achievement! So great that in 2001 no less than 31 billion were sent DAILY. By 2008 this number had increased 5.5 times, and by 2012 over 297 billion emails were sent daily.
The story in numbers of video uploads on YouTube or from YouTube to social networks is fascinating. In 2013 this site became the second largest search engine on the Internet, with over one billion unique daily users.
The power of these sites has become astonishing, considering that a video can be watched by the entire population of the planet, and that without too much effort. For example, the famous video of the song Gangnam Style reached 1 billion views without any effort in this regard.
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