Surprising Facts About the Web

How much do you know about the Web?
Well, here are some 10 fascinating or even bizarre facts about the Web. Grab yourself a popcorn and let us delve into this remarkable invention ever invented in human history! 



1. The Internet Requires Approximately 50 Million Horsepower in Electricity

With an estimated 8.7 billion electronic devices connected to the Internet, the electricity required to run the system for even one day is very substantial. According to Russell Seitz and the calculation of Michael Stevens, 50 millions brake horsepower worth of electrical power is required to keep the Internet running in its current state.






2. It Takes 2 Billion Electrons to Produce a Single Email Message

According to Michael Stevens and Vsauce calculations, a 50-kilobyte email message uses the footprint of 8 billion electrons.  The number sounds ginormous, yes, but with electrons weighing next to nothing, 8 billion of them weigh less than a quadrillionth of an ounce







3.Of the 7 Billion People on Planet Earth, Over 2.4 Billion Use the Internet

While most of these calculations cannot be precisely confirmed, there is high confidence amongst most internet statistics that more than 2 billion people use the internet and the Web as a matter of weekly habit.
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4.The Internet Weighs As Much As One Strawberry

Russel Seitz is a physicist who has crunched some very precise numbers.  With some atomic physics assumptions, the billions upon billions of 'data-in-motion' moving electrons on the Internet add up to approximately 50 grams. That is 2 ounces, the weight of one strawberry.  Want More?





5.The Internet's 5 Million Terabytes Weighs Less Than a Grain of Sand

Weighing even less that all the moving electricity, the weight of the internet's static data storage ('data-at-rest') is freakishly small.  Once you take away the mass of the hard drives and transistors, it boggles the mind that 5 million TB of data comprises less mass than a grain of sand. (Here's an understandable guide to everything from bytes to yottabytes for your reading pleasure.)






6. 1.7 Billion of the Internet's Users Are in Asia

That's right: over half of the regular population of the Web resides in some part of Asia:  Japan, South Korea, India, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore are just some of the countries with this high adoption rate. There are a growing number of web pages published in these Asian languages, but the predominant web language continues to be English.Want More?





7. The Best Connected Cities Are In South Korea and Japan

According to Akamai, the worldwide network infrastructure of internet cables and the wireless signal is the fastest in South Korea and Japan.  The average bandwidth speed there is 22 Mbps, far above the United States (at a measly 8.4 Mbps). Want More?








8.China has treatment camps for Internet addicts.

200 million Internet users in China are between the ages of 15 and 35. Hence, it is most like that they lose self-control. Tao Ran, director of the country’s first Internet addiction treatment clinic under a military hospital in Beijing said that 40% of those addicted to the Internet suffer from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.



10. The Deep Web

There’s a bigger part of the Internet, which is not linked with the common internet we use. It’s called ‘The Deep Web,’ which is at least 500 times larger than the common Internet and the sites in there are completely anonymous and you can surf them anonymously. Want More?









References :
 https://www.lifewire.com/surprising-facts-about-the-web-3862898
http://www.kickassfacts.com/30-kickass-interesting-facts-internet/