Internet has truly been one of the best and most useful creations by man. It is difficult to imagine our lives without internet usage these days and most of us are very dependent upon this invention on day to day basis.
Be it shopping online, searching for information or blogging, internet has become a part of our lives and is totally irreplaceable. Infact, in the current times, mobile internet has changed the way we log on the web and is slowly becoming a preferred internet browsing option.
1. The Takeover Of Mobile Internet
In the past two years, mobile search has grown by 500% whereas since the year 2011, 45% of the world population has been covered by a 3G mobile network. Mobile internet is slowly taking over desktop internet usage and the global mobile data traffic more than doubled between 2011 and 2012. Asia has the largest percentage of mobile web traffic in the world.
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2. The Internet In 2015
It is estimated that the year 2015 will see the dawn of the zettabyte era and ne zettabyte equals 1000 exabytes. 1 exabytes equals 1000 petabytes and 1 petabytes is equal to 1000 terabytes. So basically it would take over 5 years to watch the amount of video that will cross global networks every second in 2015.
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3. A Day In The Life Of The Internet
There are 2405518376 internet users across the world and 70% of these users use internet every day. It is surprising to know that 37.3% of the world’s population users internet. The top 5 languages on the internet are English, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese.
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4. World Wide Web
There are more internet users in China than there are people in USA and US has more internet users than the number of people in Brazil. It is a fact that the global number of internet users doubled from 2005 to 2010.
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5. Is Internet Addiction Real?
Some facets of internet addiction disorder are excessive online shopping, playing online games, excessive social networking, compulsive online gambling and even excessive blogging. Too much internet usage is not good for us as it can cause loss of sense of time, social isolation and fatigue, withdrawal when internet is inaccessible etc.
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6. The Internet: A Decade Later
The growth of the internet in the past 10 years is staggering and this can be estimated from the fact that the internet usage was 46 minutes in the year 2002 whereas in 2012, it has increased to 4 hours a day. Moreover, there were just 3 million websites in 2002 and in 2012, there were 555 million websites.
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7. Privacy And The Internet
50% of the most popular websites use cookies to collect information and 18.5% of the websites use persistent cookies to store personal information. About 10% of the US consumers have fallen victim to identity theft and the biggest data breaches of 2012 were LinkedIn, Zappos.com and Yahoo.
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8. Kids Of The Past vs. Internet Generation
These days, children are 6 times more likely to play a video game rather than ride a bike on a typical day. Infact bike riding has come down by 31% since the year 1995. So basically, internet generation kids are definitely less into physical activities than kids of the past.
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9.Broadband Internet Speeds
South Korea is the country with the highest internet speed followed by Hong Kong, Japan, Romania, Netherlands and Sweden. Congo is the country with the slowed internet speed and 186 Gbps is the highest internet speed achieved.
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10. Top 10 Countries On The Internet
China is the top country as far as internet usage is concerned and it is followed by America. Japan, India, Brazil follow next and some other countries that come in the list of the top countries on the internet are Germany, Russia, UK, France and Nigeria.
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11.How People Spend Their Time Online
The global time spent online per month is 35 Billion which is equivalent to 3995444 years. The top countries with highest online population are UK, Germany, France, Japan, USA, Russia and Brazil. The activities on which people spend their online time are social networking, searching, reading content, online shopping, emails and communication and multimedia websites.
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12. Internet Addiction: Men vs. Women
Both men and women value internet access higher than any other activities. According to a survey, men would spend 16% of their time on email, 15.8% of the time on work and 11.6% of the time on social networking while for women; these percentages are 16.4%, 16.7% and 13.1% respectively.
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13. How Internet Works
Internet needs a common language or a protocol suite to work in addition to addresses through which one computer can connect to the other. Computer converts information you enter into ones or zeroes.
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14. The State Of The Internet
Globally, nearly 200 countries and regions saw year-over-year growth in the number of unique IP addresses and the global average connection speed saw an unusual and fairly significant decline in the year 2011.
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15. Internet Statistics
66 hours is the average time spent on a computer on a monthly basis by the average person in the USA. Out of these hours, 7 hours were spent on Facebook.20 hours of video is uploaded on YouTube every minute!
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16. New Media And Internet Marketing
Social media reaches 82% of the world’s population today and some skills that the employers seek in social media marketers are curiosity, analytics, communication, business skills, marketing skills and mobile skills. In the year 2012, email marketing went up by 60% while US mobile ad spend went up by 47%.
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17. Global Internet Traffic Is Expected To Quadruple By The Year 2015
The growth in internet traffic is driven by factors like an increase in the number of devices, additional internet users, increased broadband speed and more video content. Worldwide internet traffic will approach one zettabyte per year by the year 2015.
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18. The Internet Of Things
During 2008, the number of things connected to the internet exceeded the number of people on earth and these things are not just Smartphones or tablets but all the other things. By the end of 2011, 20 typical households generated more internet traffic than the entire internet.
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19. The Internet Blacklist Bill
This is a new bill which will allow the US government to block Americans from visiting websites. This bill can also possibly become a law and those sites which are expressing themselves or finding content are at the maximum risk.
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20. A Day In The Internet
It is a fact that in one day, enough information is consumed by internet traffic to fill 168 million DVDs. In fact in one day, 294 Billion emails are sent and 2 million blog posts are written.
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