25 years after a Briton dreamed up the internet... Who knew a biting baby and a sneezing panda would be such World Wide Wonders!


From the first email in 1971 to the 1,230,000,000 Facebook 使用者s to the £0 利益(をあげる) made by creator Sir Tim Berners-物陰/風下 - we take you through the very best of the internet.

MILESTONES ON THE INFORMATION HIGHWAY

The inventor of the world wide web Sir Tim Berners-Lee

The inventor of the world wide web Sir Tim Berners-物陰/風下

1971: The year the first email was sent, by American computer programmer Ray Tomlinson. The ‘@’ symbol was used to signify that the message was sent to a person instead of a machine. His message travelled from one large mainframe computer to another standing 権利 と一緒に it.

Tomlinson says that the words were ‘完全に forgettable, and I have, therefore, forgotten them’, though he thinks the message may have been the letters from the 最高の,を越す 列/漕ぐ/騒動 of his keyboard: ‘QWERTYUIOP’.

1991: When the world’s first website, ‘info.cern.ch’ was put online by the British scientist Sir Tim Berners-物陰/風下, on August 6. The first page on the 場所/位置 (long since lost) consisted of (警察などへの)密告,告訴(状) about Berners-物陰/風下’s World Wide Web 事業/計画(する).

1997: The year the word ‘Google’ (a 審議する/熟考する misspelling of ‘googol’, which is the number 1, followed by 100 無s) was first 登録(する)d as a domain 指名する by 創立者s Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The Google search-engine program was 初めは called BackRub.

2005: When the first ビデオ was uploaded の上に YouTube by co-創立者 Jawed Karim, called Me At The Zoo. It lasted 18 seconds and showed Karim by the elephant enclosure 説: ‘The 冷静な/正味の thing about these guys is that they have really, really, really long trunks. And that’s 冷静な/正味の. And that’s pretty much all there is to say.’ It has since been watched almost 13.8 million times.

2006: The first tweet sent 経由で? Twitter, at 9.50pm on March 21, by 創立者 Jack Dorsey (then a college undergraduate) was ‘just setting up my twttr’.

MAKING A REAL NET PROFIT

The five biggest fortunes made online are .?.?.

£28.5?billion: 示す Zuckerberg, Facebook 創立者.

£19.3?billion: Larry Page, Google co-創立者.

£19.21?billion: Jeff Bezos, アマゾン co-創立者.

£19.08?billion: Sergey Brin, Google co-創立者.

£11.4?billion: Mayasoshi Son, 創立者 of Japanese internet 巨大(な) SoftBank Corp.

The news may grate for those not enamoured by U2’s singer, but Bono has made more than $1?billion (£600?million) from his personal 火刑/賭ける in Facebook.

GANGNAM, CUTE KIDS AND SNEEZING PANDAS

The most popular cute animal video on YouTube, with 191 million views, is Sneezing Baby Panda, pictured

The most popular 削減(する) animal ビデオ on YouTube, with 191 million 見解(をとる)s, is Sneezing Baby Panda, pictured

The 1.93?billion 見解(をとる)s of Gangnam Style by PSY make it the most popular YouTube ビデオ,? with almost twice as many 見解(をとる)s? as the second-placed ‘Baby’ by Justin Bieber.

The 675?million 見解(をとる)s of ‘Charlie Bit My Finger ― Again’, in which little Briton Harry Davies-Carr complains about baby brother Charlie, make it the most popular YouTube clip that isn’t a music ビデオ.

The most popular 削減(する) animal ビデオ on YouTube, with 191 million 見解(をとる)s, is ‘Sneezing Baby Panda’, featuring Chinese panda Mao Mao and her cub.

BARE-FACED INFAMY

Women's breasts are a topic of constant fascination to male internet 使用者s.

The 選び出す/独身 biggest spike in such internet activity occurred on February 1, 2004, when Janet Jackson ‘accidentally’ exposed her breast live during the half-time show at the Superbowl American football final to a TV audience of 143.6 million テレビ視聴者s.

In the 影響, ‘Janet Jackson’ became the most-searched 称する,呼ぶ/期間/用語 on Google in 2004-5 and earned her a place as the most-searched 指名する of all time in the 2007 Guinness 調書をとる/予約する Of World 記録,記録的な/記録するs.

The event is said to have been one of the inspirations for the 創造 of YouTube, whose creators were 失望させるd that there wasn’t a 場所/位置 where one could find TV and ビデオ clips online.

SOCIAL MEDIA ...? WHAT’S THAT?

In 2000, the 称する,呼ぶ/期間/用語 ‘social マスコミ’ was 事実上 unheard of. But now . . .

概略で 17 per cent of the world’s 全住民, 1.23 billion people, use Facebook. Ninety-eight per cent of Western 18 to 24-year-olds use social マスコミ.

Twenty-two per cent of 十代の少年少女s スピードを出す/記録につける on to Facebook more than ten times a day.

675million views of Charlie Bit My Finger - Again make it the most popular non music video YouTube clip

675million 見解(をとる)s of Charlie Bit My Finger - Again make it the most popular 非,不,無 music ビデオ YouTube clip

The world spends 11.67 billion hours (or 1,332 years) on Facebook every month.

Fifty-seven per c ent of Britons 定期的に use social マスコミ.

Fifty-nine per cent of 十代の少年少女s regard social マスコミ as 危険な.

THANKS FOR? VISITING . . .

The 最高の,を越す five English- language websites are Facebook, which has 1,230,000,000 individual? 訪問者s a month; Google, with 1,200,000,000; YouTube, which has 1,000,000,000; Yahoo!, which has 750,000,000, and アマゾン with 500,000,000.

THOSE SEARCHING QUESTIONS . . .

The most ありふれた ‘how to?’ searched on Google last year was ‘How to make pancakes’. This was followed by ‘How to 令状 a CV’ and ‘How to lose 負わせる’. The most searched TV show in Britain last year was BBC1’s EastEnders, followed by the American comedy 演劇 Breaking Bad and soap? 退役軍人 載冠(式)/即位(式) Street.

... AND THE NUMBERS THAT MAKE THE WORLD WIDE WEB GO ROUND

Janet Jackson's infamous wardrobe malfunction

Janet Jackson's 悪名高い wardrobe 機能不全

2.76 billion people: 39 per cent of the world’s 全住民 has internet 接近.

2.2 一兆: The total number of Google searches across the world in 2013. In Google’s first year, 1998, there were an 普通の/平均(する) of just 9,800 searches per day.

60p: The 年次の 行う Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the Americans who 設立するd Google in 1998, are paid by the internet search company. But they both own 24 million 株 in the company ― meaning Page and Brin are 価値(がある) more than £19?billion apiece.

0: The 量 of 利益(をあげる) Tim Berners-物陰/風下 has made from his 創造. He could have 特許d his idea and earned a 王族 from everyone who used the internet. But he chose not to.

4: The number of men with bad hairstyles ― and worse jumpers ― who appeared in the first picture to be sent by email. The photo was of a barbershop quartet called? the Telephone Chords, and was sent in 1992 by computer scientist Nathaniel Borenstein.

481 million: The number of Tweets that said ‘I love you’ ― in 116? different languages ― on Valentine’s Day last year.

£2.4?million: The 量 of 税金 アマゾン paid to the UK 政府 in the most 最近の 税金 year ― on sales of £4.3 billion.

191 billion: The 概算の number of emails sent every day.

33 per cent: 割合 of newly-married couples who met online, making it the most successful way to find a mate ― but one in five 離婚s are 非難するd in part on Facebook.

7: The number of 安全 専門家s drawn from a 範囲 of countries ― 含むing one Briton, Paul Kane from Bath, 長,指導者 (n)役員/(a)執行力のある of the British 科学(工学)技術 会社/堅い CommunityDNS ― who 持つ/拘留する the ‘重要な to the internet’, 許すing it to be rebooted in the 事例/患者 of an 緊急.

The ‘重要な’ is two smart cards embedded with a fragment of a 安全 code. If, in the event of a major 大災害 the internet is shut 負かす/撃墜する, these 重要な 支えるもの/所有者s will together be able to reboot it from a secret 場所 in the U.S.

41.1?million: The number of Twitter 信奉者s of pop 星/主役にする Lady Gaga, which is more than the 全住民 of Australia (22.68 million).

1.93billion views of Gangnam Style by PSY (pictured) make it the most popular YouTube video

1.93billion 見解(をとる)s of Gangnam Style by PSY (pictured) make it the most popular YouTube ビデオ

152 million: The number of blogs on the 逮捕する. Fifty-one per cent of bloggers are 女性(の). Over three million new blog 地位,任命するs appear daily.

75 per cent: The 割合 of the world’s 長,率いるs of 明言する/公表する with a? Twitter account, 含むing Barack Obama, who has 42 million 信奉者s. The Queen does not have a personal Twitter account, though the British 君主国 account has more than 639,000 信奉者s. The spoof ‘@Queen_UK’ account has over a million 信奉者s. David Cameron has just 623,000.

636: The number of photos uploaded every second to picture-株ing 場所/位置 Instagram.

31 million: The number of articles on Wikipedia ― with almost one million written in Waray-Waray, a Filipino dialect spoken by just 2.6?million people, who are evidently wild about Wiki.

Some (short-lived) (人命などを)奪う,主張するs on Wikipedia have 含むd the ‘fact’ that, before joining Take That, Robbie Williams earned his living by ‘by eating 国内の pets in pubs’ and that Tony Blair’s middle 指名する is ‘whoop de doo’.

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