1. How did Amazon started out?
Believe it or not Amazon was selling only printed books at the beginning. Today they sell way more e-books than old-school printed ones.
2. How many users does Facebook have?
The biggest social media platform created by Mark Zuckerberg back in 2004 currently has over 1 billion users. If Facebook was a country, it would have the third biggest population in the world behind China and India.
3. What did came first? Email or the World Wide Web?
The e-mail system was created long before the World Wide Web saw the light of the day. The first known e-mail system then known as AUTODIN was created back in 1962. Raymond Tomlinson is hailed as the inventor of the modern e-mail as we know it.
4. How many Internet users speak English?
The Internet today has over 2 billion internet users. Less than 500 million of them speak English.
5. When did we start paying for domain registration?
Domain registration was free up until 14th of September 1995. Today this is one of the biggest industries in the online retail world.
6. What was the first popular web browser?
The first popular web browser was called Mosaic and was released back in 1993. Mosaic stooped working four years later, but it was a significant element of popularizing the WWW.
7. Did television and radio reached the same amount of popularity so fast compared to the Internet?
Radio needed 38 years and television needed 13 years to reach a public of 50 million users. The Internet reached that mark in only four years.
8. How much electricity does Google use?
Google uses more electricity than some powerful countries. Their most recent estimate is that they need 15 billion kWh per year, but on the good side they produce most of that amount thanks to their solar panels.
9. What were the first two copyrighted video games?
When we talk about the US market that would be Asteroids and Lunar back in 1980. We would recommend to mute your audio before watching the video bellow.
10. Which country has the highest percentage of Internet users?
It’s pretty logical that this is one of the Scandinavian countries and it actually is. Sweden has over 75% of Internet users.