30 internet facts to mark 30 years of the World Wide Web

1 Half the world’s population of 7.7billion people are online.

2 By next year, there are expected to be 40billion gadgets connected to the internet, including fridges.

3 Tim Berners-Lee was working for CERN when he had his idea.

4 His boss described it as “vague but exciting”.

5 By 1993, he had written the hypertext transfer protocol – http.

6 It took just four years to reach its first 50million users.

7 The first website created, in 1991, is still online – info.cern.ch. It’s a basic HTML site with 20 lines of text.

8 There are now 1.9billion websites but only 200million are active.

9 More than 85,000 websites are hacked every day.

10 The first webcam came in 1991, to monitor a coffee pot in the computing department at Cambridge.

11 Berners-Lee uploaded the first photo on the web in 1992.

12 Of all the images on the web now, 80 per cent are of naked women.

13 Google is the world’s biggest search engine but has scanned just 0.004 per cent of the web.

14 The online boom made multimillionaires of hundreds in the right place at the right time. Google’s chef Charlie Ayers cashed in his stock in 2005 for $40million.

15 400 hours of video content is uploaded on YouTube every minute.

16 The most-watched online video is Luis Fonsi’s Despacito (6.04billion views).

17 250billion emails are sent daily… but they don’t use the web.

18 Twitter was initially called Twttr. It now has 335million users.

19 They send out 500million tweets every day.

20 The first pizza ordered on the web was from Pizza Hut in 1994.

21 YouTube’s first vid was called Me at the Zoo, posted in 2005 by co-founder Jawed Karim, left.

22 A million babies have been born to people who met on match.com.

23 The web’s patron saint is Saint Isidore of Seville.

24 Average “digital birth” (age of child’s first web presence) in developed nations is six months.

25 95million pics a day are uploaded to Instagram.

26 70 per cent of those Instagram pics don’t get seen.

27 5000 domain names are registered every hour.

28 Over 66 per cent of web users are on Facebook.

29 Facebook is worth $482billion.

30 £1 in every £5 that is spent with UK retailers is now spent online.