Internet day: 41 million messages are sent in WhatsApp per minute and other curious data from the network of networks – 17/05/2019

This Friday May 17th commemorates the World Day of the Internet, an international celebration that seeks to promote the importance of information technologies, in a context where 5,000 million active users use it daily and the consumption of videos and services in streaming It's in net growth.

Why the Internet day is celebrated

The birth of the network of networks dates back to 1 January 1983, when the migration of the ARPANET network from the NCP protocol to the TCP / IP protocol was completed, but it was not until 1989 that the foundations of the Web were established. . In the day, with the report by Tim Berners-Lee, who defined the basic principles of the World Wide Web (www), system used today to navigate and access all the information on the network.

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But the origin of the celebration, which is celebrated today with different activities around the world, dates back to initiative of the Internet Users Association (AUI) based in Spain, and a year later, the United Nations General Assembly declared May 17 World Information Society Day.

The date was chosen because on May 17, 1865, the International Union of Communications (ITU) was founded, withsigned the first international telegraph agreement in Paris.

Internet in numbers

Currently, the volume of consumption is so large that in 2012, 33 zettabytes were generated, according to Statista's Digital Economy Compbad report. This figure equates to 330 million 1 TB hard drives, or 33 million human brains.

For its part, Visual Capitalist Agency badyzed the activity that takes place on different platforms. Every 60 seconds, 4.5 million videos are viewed on YouTube, 18.1 million messages are sent, 188 million emails are sent to Gmail and 3.8 million searches are done on Google.

Data from social networks show that every minute, a million connections are on Facebook, while 41.6 million messages are sent in WhatsApp and Messenger, 87,500 people tweet and on Instagram 347 222 navigations.

For the rest of the platforms, every 60 seconds on Netflix, there are 694,444 viewing hours globally, on Google Play and on the App Store, 390,030 applications are downloaded, used 41 million subscriptions from streaming musicin Giphy, 4.8 million gifs are used and in Twitch, one million visits.

Finally, estimates suggest that Mobile Internet traffic will quadruple in 2021, with the transmission of video games and online games that will be multiplied by five, according to data released by the technology company Vertiv.