Over 2.5 million emails are sent every second
More than 2.517 million emails are sent across the internet in one second, and over 165 billion emails are exchanged in a day. Of all emails sent across the world wide web, about 67% are spam, according to Internet Live Stats. The world wide web, invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989, was opened to the public on August 23, 1991.