This picturesque West Cork home with separate basement apartment is on the market for €695,000
This picturesque West Cork home with separate basement apartment is on the market for €695,000

Sarah Finnan

‘The Easter holidays are a fresh kind of hell when you have kids and a job’
‘The Easter holidays are a fresh kind of hell when you have kids and a...

Dominique McMullan

Annutri co-founder and award-winning businesswoman Anita Donoghue on the power of a positive mindset
Annutri co-founder and award-winning businesswoman Anita Donoghue on the power of a positive mindset

IMAGE

This Clontarf home was reconfigured to streamline the layout and maximise its views
This Clontarf home was reconfigured to streamline the layout and maximise its views

Megan Burns

6 classic movies worth watching over Easter
6 classic movies worth watching over Easter

Jennifer McShane

The friend zone: How to navigate finding friends as an adult
The friend zone: How to navigate finding friends as an adult

Sarah Gill

Supper Club: Fearne Cotton’s haddock burrito, punchy salsa and homemade guacamole
Supper Club: Fearne Cotton’s haddock burrito, punchy salsa and homemade guacamole

Meg Walker

New life has been breathed into this Victorian Portobello home thanks to a revamp that’s full of personality
New life has been breathed into this Victorian Portobello home thanks to a revamp that’s...

Megan Burns

This rustic four-bedroom home in Westport is on the market for €449,000
This rustic four-bedroom home in Westport is on the market for €449,000

Sarah Finnan

My Career: Archivist at Guinness Eibhlin Colgan
My Career: Archivist at Guinness Eibhlin Colgan

Sarah Finnan

Image / Editorial

Five Things You Didn’t Know About The Internet


By IMAGE
25th Nov 2015
Five Things You Didn’t Know About The Internet

Ahead of our Digital Masterclass on the 2nd of December in the Gibson hotel, where you’ll hear from Joan Mulvihill, CEO of the Irish Internet Association and plenty more, we take a deeper look at the tool we use every day. Get your tickets to the event right here!?

An Irish man had a role in the early development of the Internet, 30 million matches are made on Tinder every day and last year 5 million YouTube videos were viewed every 60 seconds… here’s five things you didn’t know about the Internet!

  • Of the 7.2 billion people in the world, over 3.3 billion use the Internet. 1.7 billion of those users are in Asia.
  • In just 60 seconds of Internet in 2014, 293,000 Facebook statuses were updated, 433,000 tweets were sent, 27,000 Snapchats were sent, there were 2.66 million Google searches, 67,000 Instagram pictures were uploaded, and over 5 million YouTube videos were viewed.
  • Irish man, academic and Internet Pioneer (in the Internet Hall of Fame) Dr Dennis Jennings had a role in the early design and development of the Internet. He was responsible for three critical decisions that shaped the subsequent development of NSFNET, the network that became the Internet.
  • The online dating industry generates over $1.7 billion a year.?We recently heard from the CEO of Tinder at the Web Summit who told us Tinder creates 1.5 million dates each week, has 9 billion matches so far, and 30 million matches are made per day. Of the 194 countries that use Tinder, Ireland in particular has ?a highly engaged audience?.
  • Facebook was the first social network to reach over 1 billion registered accounts – Instagram has 400 million monthly users, Twitter has 316 million active monthly users and Snapchat has 200 million active4 monthly users.

 

BOOK YOUR TICKETS NOW!

Digital Masterclass - Joan Mulvihill - Ezine Banner

(Via Internet World Stats, Qmee, Statistic Brain, Silicon Republic, and Statista)