Hi friends! Here's a bit of a different blog post - 10 crazy things you didn't know about the internet (Freaky Friday Files will be back next week - I try and not do them on Fridays where I have therapy in the morning - but you can check out last week's Freaky Friday Files "here". And I feel like I'm a bit of an expert when it comes to the internet AND social media (and yes, I am gonna toot my own horn here and say it's because I wrote a whole masters thesis on it - you can read my thesis on Social Media: A New Religion? "here".
The platform YouTube uploads around 72 HOURS of content every single minute. That's cwaaaaazy cupcakes oh my gosh, what on earth am I competing with? You can check out my YouTube channel "here".
According to Forbes (2024), as of March 2024, there are 5.35 billion internet users (out of 8 billion people).
There are OVER 9 billion Wi-Fi-enabled devices globally. Gah, I can't even begin to think about how many are in our house: I have 2 laptops, Luke has his work computer, his laptop, and his tablet, and we have two smartphones, a Google Chromecast, and a Google Speaker thing that I refuse to use because I think it's haunted. And I'm probably missing a few things too.
The best "connected" cities are in Japan and South Korea.
According to "this source", "Doughnut-shaped signals are a thing! If you have an antenna on your router, the radio frequency energy that radiates from it looks a lot like a doughnut. In reality, you can’t really see a doughnut protruding from your router, but the thought of a doughnut-shaped energy field sounds delicious, right?"
There is a beauty trend where influencers or beauty bloggers will layer something like a foundation on their faces 100 times.
The "internet" literally weighs the same as what a strawberry weighs (LOLWUT).
Platforms such as YouTube and Netflix "account for more than half of downstream internet traffic in North America."
The common phrase "internet surfing" was coined by Jean Armour Polly in 1992 (Polly was one of the first librarians to give access to the public for computers and in the internet in public libraries, how cool).
About 87% of people have not heard the term "Internet of Things" or IoT.
Much love,
Ash xoxo
Great post, entertaining and interesting. I didn't know about the beauty trend (layering a product 100 times on your face sounds very unhealthy...).
Thanks for sharing!
Amazing post and very interesting topic.i enjoyed this alot