HISTORY 1969
• ARPANet was born
1971 • The E-Mail was launched
1974 • TCP/IP was finally completed
1977 • The first modem developed
1982 • Emoticons for E-Mail launched
1989 • AOL was launched
1995 • Yahoo was born
1998 • Google was introduced
2001 • Wikipedia replaced encyclopedias
2003 • Skype was launched
2004 • The birth of Facebook
2005 • YouTube
2006 • Twitter
2010 • Wireless internet access
FAST FACTS FROM THE PAST
The First Man to Use the Internet
Charley Kline at the UCLA was the first person to send packets on ARPANet while trying to connect to Stanford Research Institute on October 29,
1969. The system crashed just after he reached G in LOGIN.
Did Al Gore Invented the Internet?
Al Gore was not yet in the Congress during the launch of the ARPANET and
even during 1974 wherein the term “internet” was coined. However, Gore
was one of the officials who really supported the growth of the platform.
Who is Archie?
Archie is an archiver for FTP sites created in 1989 used to index the
Internet. It was later on closed down to outside access due to the
tremendous amount of traffic going into Canada from the United States.
VERONICA and JUGHEAD
Peter Deutsch, developer of the Archie coined the name to shorten
the word "Archiver"> he detested the creation of VERONICA and JUGHEAD, both indexing software, thinking that the name ARCHIE was derived from
the comic strip.
How fast was the internet?
Internet connection was slow during its early start. It would usually take 20 minutes for a single page to load. One can actually go on a coffee break and return with their screen still loading.
1994 World Wide Consortium
Everyone wanted to put their stamp on the internet as it developed. That is why Tim Berners-Lee and company
formed the World Wide Web Consortium to promote and develop
standards for the Web.
World Wide Web: Its
Purpose and Value
Internet of Things Value Add by 2020
Manufacturing
Healthcare Providers
Insurance
Banking & Securities
Retail and Wholesale
Computing Services
Government
The Internet has indeed played and is continuously contributing in different sectors of the economy
making it one of the biggest influencers and marketing platform for businesses today. The value of the Internet
of Things by 2020 is expected to reach $1.9 Trillion
World Wide Web: It’s
Purpose and Value
The business sector is one of the markets that usually takes advantage of what the Internet offers. The internet, according to a study conducted in 2008 was mostly used as a resource for information for businesses. Travel purposes lands on the second most common reason for using the Internet in the business sector.
Meanwhile, the same study conducted by the IAPI Business Media indicates that a person usually frequents the internet thrice daily. A small part of the study, a mere 2% claims that they have never used the internet in the whole of their daily activity. However, there was no indication on how much time is spent by the respondents in the Internet during every visit.
The World Wide Web Now
China has treatment camps for Internet
addicts
37% of the Internet is PORN
30,000 websites are HACKED everyday
There is high-speed internet up to the
Mt. Everest
Most traffic in the internet is created
by BOTS and MALWARE
15% of American Adults Do Not Use
the Internet
The World Wide Web Now
Fastest Internet Speed in the World
Jannah Burj Al Sarab, a new
hotel in Abu Dhabi claims that they have recently upgraded their Wi-Fi connection to 1.2
Gbps making it the fastest internet connection available
in any hotel. Prior to the upgrade, the speed of the
internet in the said hotel was 270Mbps.
SOCIAL MEDIA SUBSCRIBERS
1.44 billion monthly users with 2.5million under the 13-17 age
bracket
Twitter 15 million users, 80% of
which access the website via a mobile
device
Instagram 300 million users with an income of $1 billion
in 2015
YouTube 1 billion monthly users with a low revenue of
4billion in 2015
Pinterest Started in 2010 but managed to acquire
748% increase in traffic in a span of two years
0 5 10 15 20 25
12. 1 Mbps Finland
12. 3 Mbps Czech Republic
12.7 Mbps Ireland
13.0 Mbps Latvia
14.2 Mbps Netherlands
14.5 Mbps Switzerland
14.6 Mbps Sweden
15.2 Mbps Japan
16.8 Mbps Hong Kong
22.2 Mbps South Korea
Internet Speed
Where the Internet is Headed
Last year, January 2015, an average of 3 hours is spent on the internet via a PC
or tablet. Two hours on the other hand is used up by social media whether on a PC or a mobile device. In 2016 this data is expected to increase as well as the
number of internet users around the world, 3.4 billion users as predicted.
The whole internet world will achieve a total of 3 trillion
Wi-Fi internet access will also grow this year and half of the internet traffic predicted this year will come from these Wi-Fi connections.
A total of 1.2 million video minutes will become accessible to internet users and
would travel the internet every second this year.
A total of 18.9 billion network connections will be achieved, with 2.5 connections for each person a far cry from last 2011’s record of 10.3 billion.
Where the Internet is Headed
Software that can track resources and respond to crime
Human vital signs accessible via the internet
Security and authentication processes improved
Internet beyond the planet Earth
Interplanetary Internet
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