Birthdays and Founders of Your Favorite Websites !

It was 22 years back when the first website of the world was launched on 6th of august 1991 by a team of CERN engineers led by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Since then so many websites have been launched and being used by various people for various purposes. Here we have the 10 of the most famous websites in the world with their birthdays and the founders.

1

Birthday: September 4, 1998
Founder: Larry Page and Sergey Brin

Yahoo

2

Birthday: March 1994
Founder: Jerry Yang and David Filo

Bing

3

Birthday: June 1, 2009
Founder:Microsoft

Amazon

4

Birthday: 1994
Founder: Jeffrey P. Bezos

Ebay

5

Birthday: September 3, 1995
Founder: Pierre Omidyar

Facebook

6

Birthday: February 2004
Founder: Mark Zuckerberg

Twitter

7

Birthday: March 2006
Founder: Jack Dorsey

Linked In

8

Birthday: December 2002
Founder: Reid Hoffman

Pinterest

9

Birthday: December 2009
Founder: Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra, and Evan Sharp

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Source: http://dsim.in/blog/birthdays-and-founders-of-your-favorite-websites/

With 243 million users by 2014, India to beat US in internet reach: Study

internet penetration in India is yet to cross 16% of the population, however in absolute numbers this percentage works out to nearly 10 times the population of Australia.

According to a recent report released by IAMAI and IMRB, internet penetration in India has crossed the 200 million mark by October. Besides, it is estimated that there will around 243 million internet users in the country by June 2014, leaving behind the US as the world’s second largest internet base after China.

Let’s have a sneak peek to some of the facts and stats discovered in this study by IAMAI:

• An estimated internet user in the US currently is 207 million while that of China is 300 million and India is 205 million.

• India with more than 82 million monthly active Facebook users spots the third position in the world after the US and Canada

• India has 110 million mobile internet users of which 25 million are in rural India.

• 70% of rural India’s active internet population access the web via mobile phones. 

As per Nilotpal Chakravarti, associate vice-president, IAMAI India’s performance when it comes to internet penetration is an achievement, given the country’s current infrastructure.

Resource: http://dsim.in/blog/with-243-million-users-by-2014-india-to-beat-us-in-internet-reach-study/