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Gravitas: Indians say Good Morning, internet clogged: 

YouTube video by Wion channel 

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Internet Timeline ~ Age of Internet :

The Internet is 11,898 days of age as on 8/10/2021 - link from tosbourn.com

https://howoldistheinter.net/

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Mr. Chris Woodford in the website “explain that stuff”

When you chat to somebody on the Net or send them an e-mail, do you ever stop to think how many different computers you are using in the process? There's the computer on your own desk, of course, and another one at the other end where the other person is sitting, ready to communicate with you. But in between your two machines, making communication between them possible, there are probably about a dozen other computers bridging the gap. Collectively, all the world's linked-up computers are called the Internet. 

What most of us think of as the Internet—Google, eBay, and all the rest of it—is actually the “World Wide Web” ~ www. The Internet is the underlying telecommunication network that makes the Web possible. If you use “broadband”, your computer is probably connected to the Internet all the time it's on.

Global communication is easy now thanks to an intricately linked worldwide computer network that we call the Internet. In less than 20 years, the Internet has expanded to link up around 230 different nations. Even some of the world's poorest developing nations are now connected.

Countries online: In just over a decade, between 1988 and 2000, virtually every country in the world went online. And very interestingly the numbers remains at 228 from 2012 till 2020!

What does the Internet do?

The Internet has one very simple job: to move computerized information (known as data) from one place to another. That's it! The machines that make up the Internet treat all the information they handle in exactly the same way. In this respect, the Internet works a bit like the postal service. Letters are simply passed from one place to another, no matter who they are from or what messages they contain. The job of the mail service is to move letters from place to place, not to worry about why people are writing letters in the first place; the same applies to the Internet.

How the Net really works: 

The real Internet doesn't involve moving home with the help of envelopes—and the information that flows back and forth can't be controlled by people like you or me. That's probably just as well given how much data flows over the Net each day—roughly 3 billion emails and a huge amount of traffic downloaded from the world's 250 million websites by its 2 billion users. If everything is sent by packet-sharing, and no-one really controls it, how does that vast mass of data ever reach its destination without getting lost?

The answer is called TCP/IP, which stands for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. It's the Internet's fundamental "control system" and it's really two systems in one. In the computer world, a "protocol" is simply a standard way of doing things—a tried and trusted method that everybody follows to ensure things get done properly. So what do TCP and IP actually do? That I will leave the experts and aspirants to learn at a suitable time.

Internet after 2000: ( this is a view of the tip of the iceberg )!

• 2003: Virtually every country in the world is now connected to the Internet.
• 2004: Orkut was a social networking service owned and operated by Google in its later years. The service was designed to help users meet new and old friends and maintain existing relationships. The website was named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten
• 2004: Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg revolutionizes social networking with Facebook, an easy-to-use website that connects people with their friends.
• 2005: The first ever YouTube video was uploaded on April 23, 2005. YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim posted the 18-second video, titled "Me at the zoo." It has since garnered over 90 million views.
• In 2020, YouTube's advertising revenue accounted for approximately 10.9 percent of Google's total revenue. That year, the video platform's annual ad revenues amounted to 19.77 billion U.S. dollars, up from 15.15 billion U.S. dollars in the previous year.
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• 2006: Jack Dorsey and Evan Williams found Twitter, an even simpler "microblogging" site where people share their thoughts and observations in off-the-cuff, 140-character status messages.
• 2008: WhatsApp Messenger, or simply WhatsApp, is an American freeware, cross-platform centralized instant messaging and voice-over-IP service owned by Facebook, Inc. It allows users to send text messages and voice messages, make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other content. Potential revenue for WhatsApp is estimated to be $5 billion and the average revenue per user to be $4 in 2020. WhatsApp makes money by charging registered businesses for slow replies. Businesses are allowed to respond to messages from users for free for up to 24 hours but are charged a fee per message for delayed responses, which varies by country.
• 2010: Instagram is an American photo and video sharing social networking service founded by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. In April 2012, Facebook acquired the service for approximately US$1 billion in cash and stock.
• 2020: 1.7MB of data is created every second by every person during 2020. In the last two years alone, the astonishing 90% of the world's data has been created. 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are produced by humans every day. 463 exabytes of data will be generated each day by humans as of 2025.
• 2021: 95 million photos and videos are shared every day on Instagram. 44 zettabytes will make up the entire digital universe. Every day, 306.4 billion emails are sent, and 500 million Tweets are made. Global Internet traffic in 2021 will be equivalent to 135x the volume of the entire Global Internet in 2005. Globally, Internet traffic will reach 30 Gigabytes per capita in 2021, up from 10 Gigabytes per capita in 2016. Globally, average Internet traffic will increase 3.2-fold by 2021 and will reach 717 Tbps. 
• There are still more elements which immensely load the internet, such as Netflix, OTT platforms, E-commerce apps like Zomato, Amazon, and so on.  

Coming back to our Good Morning messages; 

Ms. Annabel Rodgers in “lovepanky” says, why that good morning text can mean so much?

- It means you’re thinking about them. 

- It’s almost effortless appreciation.

- Starting the day with a message from a lover feels good.

- It’s simple chivalry; meaning, courteous behavior, especially that of a man towards women.

- It’ll make their whole day.

The importance of a good morning text just can’t be ignored. Now you know why they’re so special and how you can make them even more meaningful.

Now I will leave to the readers / listeners to think and comment on one thing: are the poor Indian householders who send and receive the “Good Morning” messages clutter the internet? 

My take here is this: 

It’s the reasons told in the second half the YouTube video given in the beginning are creating the major portion of the clutter, not the good morning messages. People blame on the refreshing morning messages as the reasons for the internet clutter where as millions of anti-social and porn videos are uploaded, forwarded and played every second. Seems they are contributing to the world economy growth, so no one is there to blame them!

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For an extensive reading regarding internet, please go through the following excellent website:

https://www.explainthatstuff.com/internet.html