Today marks the 46th anniversary of the birth of internet

• Internet turns 46:
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• On October 29, 1969, the first electronic mail (email) was sent from one computer to another, it is also celebrated as the birth of computer. The message was a simple 'lo' which basically stood for 'login' but only the first two letters delivered as the computers had crashed. This day is also celebrated as International Internet Day.
  Some incredible facts on Internet you should definitely know:
  
• The term 'surfing' the internet was coined in 1992 by a New York librarian, Jean Armour Polly, who is also known as 'Net Mom' A single Google query uses 1,000 computers in 0.2 seconds to retrieve an answer 16 to 20 percent of queries that get asked every day have never been asked before Mark Zuckerberg was the first person on Facebook with ID Number 4. The first three accounts were just the testing accounts Today, more than 294 billion emails are sent each day 90 percent of all the emails that are sent every day is regarded as spam The first email was sent by Ray Tomlinson to himself in 1971 There are 3.6 billion email accounts in the world today 30,000 websites are hacked every day The majority of internet traffic is generated by web robots like Google and Malware Over 10,000 new dot com (.com) domains are registered on the web every day The first YouTube video was uploaded April 23, 2005. The video is called 'Me at the zoo' and features Jawed Karim who is one of the founders at the San Diego Zoo The inventor of the modern World Wide Web is Tim Berners-Lee The Internet requires over 50 million horsepower in electricity It takes over 2 billion electrons to produce a single email message Moving electrons on the internet weigh approximately 50 grams It is said that soon, 'Internet Addiction' will be added in the list of mental disorders
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