There are certainly some interesting facts about the internet. This article will share some of them with you.
At the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, the world’s first private electronic computer was introduced in 1946. It was called the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator or ENIAC, and was 8 feet in height by 80 feet in length and 30 tons in weight.
During the Second World War, the British Government developed the world’s first computer known as Colossus.
By 20 October 1969, the internet was born with the first transmission of data which was the letters L and O.
Being the best search engine on the Web, ‘Google’, took its name from the word ‘googol’ meaning the number represented by one followed by 100 zeros.
Jean Armour Polly coined the term of ‘surfing the Internet’ in 1992.
Technically, the sign ‘@’ is called the ‘amphora’.
Originally, the internet was known as the ARPAnet as it started with the US Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects in 1969.
Web pages utilize a special language called Hypertext Markup Language or HTML.
Of all of the information found on the World Wide Web around 80% is in the English language.
The idea of using ‘emoticons’, symbols that indicate certain emotions in an email or writing form, was created by Kevin Mackenzie in 1979.
Now that we have shared this information with you, how many of these facts did you know about?
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Great sharing piece!