How was Facebook born?

acebook was originally named TheFaceBook and it was developed by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg in 2004. The first use of the Facebook was on the Harvard campus and it was limited only to Harvard students. Soon the Facebook spreaded like wild fire around the other major U.S. Universities. Mark Zuckerberg dropped Harvard and pursued his Facebook dream to become one of the 4th most-trafficked websites in the world with more than 90 million active users. The Facebook website is built on PHP-MySQL technology and it is probably the most popular PHP website ever built. Interesting fact is that the facebook.com domain was purchased for $200,000 and Facebook has more than 24 million photos uploaded daily.

What is ?

Google is the largest search engine on the Internet. It started in January, 1996 as a research project at Stanford University, by Ph.D. candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were 24 years old and 23 years old respectively. The name Google comes from "Googol" which is a mathematical term of 1 followed by one hundred zeroes. Currently it receives about a billion search requests per day.

Why is Google so big?

Because unlike its competition, Google enriches their results by indexing websites through the links that point in and out of every site. Suppose your site is mentioned in Ingeniarte; when the Google crawler finds Ingeniarte it takes into account the existing link we have to your site and it will save it too. Most likely the next time you search in Google the name of your company, your website will be listed in the results. That is why the Google database is constantly growing and has positioned itself as the largest Internet search engine.

How did the Internet start and why?

Many believe it all started with the time-sharing of IBM computers in the early 60’s at universities such as Dartmouth, Berkeley and others in the States. People would share the same computer for their computing tasks. The Internet also received help from Sputnik! After this Russian Satellite was launched in 1957, President Eisenhower formed ARPA to advance computer networking and communication.

What was ARPANET?

ARPANET stands for ‘Advanced Research Projects Agency Network’. It came about in the arena of Sputnik and the Cold War. The military needed a method of communicating and sharing all the information through computers for research and development. It would also be a handy communication system if all traditional ways were wiped out in a nuclear attack.

Who named it “World Wide Web”?

Tim Berners-Lee in 1989. He’s also considered by most people as the person who started the whole thing rolling. Currently, he is the director of the W3C.

How fast is the Internet growing?

Very fast. It took 38 years for radio to reach 50 million users, 13 years for TV, and only 5 years for the Internet.

How big is the Internet’s surfing world?

Google’s index now stands at 8 billion pages. Roughly 812 million surfers and growing. Using email (67%) and doing reseach (45%) are the main activities, followed by getting info about products/services (41%), and checking news, weather, etc. (40%)