You could fit the whole Internet on just 200 million Blu-Ray disks and the first webcam was used to monitor a coffee maker?
The technology behind the Internet began back in the 1960′s at MIT. The first message ever to be transmitted was LOG. Why? The user had attempted to type LOGIN, but the network crashed after the enormous load of data of the letter G. It was to be a while before Facebook would be developed…
The Internet began as a single page at the URL http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html, which contained information about this new-fangled “WorldWideWeb” project, and how you too could make a hypertext page full of wonderful hyperlinks. Sadly, the original page was never saved, but you can view it after 2 years of revisions here.
Other interesting internet trivia:
- The first webcam was deployed at Cambridge University computer lab – its sole purpose to monitor a particular coffee maker and hence avoid wasted trips to an empty pot.
- Although the MP3 standard was invented in 1991, it wouldn’t be until 1998 that the first music file-sharing service Napster, would go live, and change the way the Internet was used forever.
- Ever since the birth of the Internet, file sharing was a problem for the authorities that managed it. In 1989, McGill University shut down their FTP indexing site after finding out that it was responsible for half of the Internet traffic from America into Canada. Fortunately, a number of similar file indexing sites had already been made.
- Sound familiar? Even today file sharing dominates Internet traffic with torrent files accounting for over 50% of upstream bandwidth. However, a larger proportion of download bandwidth is taken up by streaming media services such as Netflix.
- Google estimates that the Internet today contains about 5 million terabytes of data (1TB = 1,000GB), and claims it has only indexed a paltry 0.04% of it all! You could fit the whole Internet on just 200 million Blu-Ray disks.
- Twenty hours of video from around the world are uploaded to YouTube every minute. The first ever YouTube video was uploaded on April 23rd 2005,by Jawed Karim (one of the founders of the site) and was 18 seconds long, entitled “Me at the zoo”. It was quite boring, as is 99% of the content on YouTube today.
SOURCE: http://www.makeuseof.com
Jy kan die hele internet op 200 miljoen Blu-Ray skywe stoor en dat die heel eerste webkamera gebruik is om `n koffiepot te monitor? Deesdae is ons al so bederf met die internet dat dit moeilik is om `n lewe daarsonder in te dink. Maar weet jy waar dit alles begin het?
Die tegnologie agter die internet is alreeds in die sestigerjare by MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) begin. Die eerste boodskap wat ooit gestuur het, het net een word bevat – LOG. Hoekom? Die person wat dit getik het, het LOGIN probeer tik, maar die geweldige hoeveelheid data wat die letter G bevat het, het die hele netwerk laat platval.
Die internet was oorspronklik net een bladsy by die URL http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html. Op hierdie enkele blad was `n opsomming oor hierdie nuwe projek wat die “WorldWideWeb” genoem word en hoe jy ook `n bladsy kan maak vol wonderlike hiperskakels. Ongelukkig is die oorspronklike blad nie meer beskikbaar nie, maar jy kan die hersiende weergawe hier kry.
Nog interessante internet-trivia:
- Die eerste webkamera is implementeer in Cambridge se rekenaarlaboratorium – sy enigste doel was om een spesifieke koffiemasjien te monitor sodat die koffiedrinkers nie verniet loop en `n leë koffiepot kry nie. Hierdie “gevorderde” tegnologie word steeds selfs op ons eie kampus gebruik in sekere laboratoriums.
- MP3’s is reeds in 1991 uitgevind, maar is eers in 1998 vir die eerste keer gebruik te danke aan Napster.
- Reg van die begin af was het die deel van leêrs op die internet vir owerhede problem geskep. In 1989 moes die Universiteit van McGill hulle ftp-webwerf afsit nadat hulle besef het dis verantwoordelik vir die helfte van alle internetverkeer van Amerika na Kanada.
- Die enorme omvang van die leêrdeling vandag met die gepaardgaande etiese kwessies kom dus al `n lang pad. Torrent-leêrs gebruik meer as 50% van die bandwydte van die internet – `n groot gedeelte word egter opgeneem deur videostrome van dienste soos Netflix.
- Google beraam dat die internet vandag uit 5 million terabytes se data (1TB = 1,000GB) bestaan, waarvan Google self nog net 0.04% geindekseer het.
- Twintig ure se videomateriaal word elke minuut van reg oor die wêreld op YouTube gelaai. Die heel eerste YouTube video is op 23 April deur Jawed Karim (een van die stigterslede van die webwerf) gelaai, was 18 sekondes lank en geweldig vervelig. (Sommige goed verander nooi!)
BRON: http://www.makeuseof.com
