Discover the World of Networking: Top 9 Fun Facts You Never Knew!

1. 144 Minutes of Social Media

As people continue to scroll, tap, and swipe their way through life like they're engaging in some kind of multi-player, digitally-obsessed finger Olympics: It's interesting to know that internet users, on average, are now spending a whopping 144 minutes per day on social media and messaging apps – a figure that's climbed more than 30 minutes since 2015.
Source => statista.com

2. ISS's Out-of-this-World Internet

Ever heard of the Internet being out of this world? Well, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) probably coined the term: The ISS's satellite link serves not only as a means of staying connected with loved ones on Earth, but also streams scientific data, video content, and facilitates audio and video conferencing with mission control. Alas, due to the vagaries of satellite communications, their connection speed is akin to the good ol' dial-up modem days, and they might even lose coverage for up to 15 minutes per orbit, making their galactic browsing experience, quite literally, otherworldly!
Source => usa.kaspersky.com

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3. Emoji Domain Dilemma

If you're tempted to play emoji-nopoly and nab yourself a website name with smiley faces, heart-eyed kittens, and expressive eggplants as its centerpiece, let us offer you a reality-check emoji (if one exists): Emoji domains might be quirky and delightful, but their potential value plummets faster than a pile of poo emojis, due to their obscure .ws country code, universal acceptance issues, and the inevitable SEO disasters that follow.
Source => domainnamewire.com

4. Internet's Explosive Growth

Hold on to your modems, folks: The internet's grand debut was in 1991 when Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist, bravely unleashed the first ever website at CERN – but it wasn't until a year later that the world got a taste. By 1994, 3,000 websites were out there in the digital wilderness, but the figure surged to 2 million by the time Google peered into the scene in 1996. Today, an astounding 1.9 billion websites roam the vast expanses of cyberspace, and to think that it all started with a simple site dedicated to the humble World Wide Web Project and instructions on how to navigate the uncharted territory.
Source => npr.org

5. Dial-up Nostalgia in 2019

Party like it's 1999: As of 2019, a surprising 265,000 people in the United States still ride the nostalgic dial-up internet wave, primarily due to incomplete broadband market penetration in rural areas.
Source => howtogeek.com

6. The First Email Ever Sent

Before sliding into DMs, there was the art of casually hitting "send" on the keyboard: The first-ever network email was sent by computer engineer Ray Tomlinson in 1971. It traveled from one computer to another right next to it in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but journeyed through ARPANET – the internet's grandparent. The email, a modest self-send, read something like "QWERTYUIOP."
Source => economictimes.indiatimes.com

7. Eco-friendly Ice Cream Vans

The next time you hear "Pop Goes the Weasel," fear not the impending sugar rush but rejoice for the planet's sake: UK-based Whitby Morrison is launching a battery-powered ice-cream maker that can retrofit existing vans, run for 12 hours without engine power, and dish out 600 cones per hour, supporting the reduction of carbon emissions and addressing pollution concerns.
Source => theguardian.com

8. Firefox's Identity Crisis

Playing a game of hot potato with browser names, the Mozilla Foundation went through the fiery pits of trademark disputes like a mythical creature rising from the ashes: It turns out that before we knew and loved Firefox as the browser's name, it was firstly "Phoenix" and then "Firebird", but each moniker was swiftly ditched due to legal clashes with Phoenix Technologies and the Firebird open-source relational database project, respectively – ultimately birthing the fiery fox we associate it with today.
Source => cnet.com

9. Tech-savvy Cows and 5G

Cow-you-believe-it? Our bovine buddies in the UK are embracing their inner tech-gurus, trading in their cowbells for some nifty 5G bling: These wireless monitoring collars track their movements and eating habits, streamlining dairy farming efficiency, and helping farmers keep their herds happy and healthy through smartphone alerts.
Source => denverpost.com