Facts About The Internet

1)  Google estimated in 2010, that the data size of the Internet is 5 million Terabytes, 61% from videos,  and growing rapidly. Google has the largest index of the Internet out of any company, but claims to have scanned only 0.004% of the total.

2)  There’s an estimated 637 million websites (source), of which there are over 250 million blogs.

3)  "There are approximately 4,200 new domain names registered every  hour, or around 37 million per year."
4)  Facebook has an estimated 1.2 Billion active users. To put that into perspective, there’s about 7 billion people on Earth. 17% of humans are on Facebook.

5)  Even more crazy is that there are about 2.4 billion Internet users. That means 50% of all Internet users are on Facebook.

6)  Both Apple’s iTunes store and Google’s Play store claim to have over 800,000 apps each.780,000 iOS apps are downloaded every hour.

7) The first ever email was sent in 1971 by Ray Tomilinson, the US programmer who invented the email system.

8)  About 250 billion emails are sent every day.

9) "81% of all emails sent is considered to be spam. That’s 200 billion every day."
10)  72 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute, and YouTube’s copyright-checking     software scans over 100 years of video every day.