That's all that happens in a minute on the internet

51.2% of the world's population has access to the Internet, according to data from the end of last year, reported by the International Union of Communications (ITU). There is still a little less than half of the world's offline population, but this level of connection is already producing surprising information flows.

In just one minute, 188 million emails are sent over the Internet. 3.8 million searches are made; You can see nearly 700,000 hours of movies and series on Netflix, sending over 41.6 million messages via WhatsApp, Facebook and Messenger.

These are just a few numbers that help sift the virtual data sea in which we are immersed. And everything has happened in a few years. On March 12, 1989, Tim Berners-Lee, nicknamed "The Father of the Web," wrote his first proposal on the future architecture of the Web.

And this earned him several distinctions. In 2017, he received the Turing Prize, he also received the Asturias Award, he is an honorary member of the Royal Society of Arts and integrates the Internet Hall of Fame at the Internet Society.

But long before that, when he was just starting to develop his network of networks, Berners-Lee worked at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Switzerland. And his goal was to find a system that would facilitate communication and dissemination of information among researchers. Today, it can be said that he far exceeded his goal.

The genesis lies in the language of hypertext tags or HTML, hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) and object location system (URL), which the expert had begun to design a few years ago.

The Web results from the combination of HTTP, the communication protocol allowing the transfer of information. and HTML, the language marked for page generation.

Next came the development of the first browser with NEXTSTEP, called WorldWideWeb, and CERN's first Web server. It was the beginning of the fourth industrial revolution. Initially, what appeared to be a new form of communication became a way to create social connections, manage finances, market, work and more.