International Internet Day Commemorated On 29 October
Highlights:
- International Internet Day is celebrated on 29 October every year to celebrate the usage of the internet.
- The first electronic message was sent on this day in 1969, and it was sent from one computer to another.
- ARPANET was the name of the Internet at the time (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network).
- On October 29, 1969, Charley Kline, a student programmer at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), sent the first-ever electronic message, 'LO.'
- On October 29, 2005, the first International Internet Day was held to commemorate this watershed moment in telecommunications and technology.
- According to speed test 2021 global index, the mobile download speed has increased by 59.5% over the last year globally and the same or fixed broadband increased by 31.9%
- India has ranked 122nd with 17.77 Mbps mobile download speed, 5.09 mobile upload speed and 47 ms latency
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