50 millions of Italians online every day e 35 millions active on social networks. These are some of the data on the use of the internet in our country, presented in the last Digital annual report 2020.
The Internet has now entered our daily life, enough to be used for anything, from buying products to looking for news, as well as to keep in touch with friends and relatives between social networks, chat and video calls.
In the pandemic period we are experiencing, if in many sectors it was possible to keep companies moving forward, it was thanks to the internet that allowed employees to connect remotely to their company PC (Home Office). As well as the world of school and training in general it has benefited from it to continue, somehow, school programs (DAD).
Although the web is so central to our lives, there are some aspects of its history that are still little known, which are both interesting and a lot of fun. For this reason GoDaddy It created the infographic "10 facts you didn't know about the Internet" so as to find out more on the World Wide Web.
The first website, still active today, was published on 6 August 1991 and Tim Berners-Lee, co-inventor of the web together with Robert Cailliau and describes the World Wide Web project. The first web cam also dates back to the same year, which owes its birth to a coffee jug: Cambridge University students, tired of going to the machine room, punctually finding the empty pitcher, they decided to install a video camera that monitored the coffee level and sent the images to all the computers.
The history of the first registered domain is also very curious: the date dates back to even before the birth of the Web, since Symbolics.com was recorded in 15 March 1985 to be used within ARPANET, a computer network born in 1969 considered the ancestor of the modern Internet. Even more amazing is another fact about the domain name cars.com, which holds the record for the most expensive web address in the world: 872 Millions of dollars.
To realize the size and speed at which the Internet travels, just list some data, given that in 1 second: are seen beyond 87.580 video su Youtube, done 88.605 Google searches, sent 2.984.403 email.
If you want to go further, it is advisable to read the book by Daniele Bottoni Comotti From Prehistory to the Web - Journey through time to discover technology.
Alex Gaetani