China has treatment camps for Internet addicts.
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37%
of the web is porn.
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30,000 websites are hacked every day.
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There's high-speed Internet on the way up to Mount Everest.
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The majority of Internet traffic is not generated by humans, but bots like Google and Malware.
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When Montenegro became independent from Yugoslavia, its Internet domain name went from .yu to .me.
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In 2015, a U.S. journalist was sentenced to 5 years in jail for posting a link on the web.
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15%
of American adults do not use the Internet.
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1 in 10 Americans thinks HTML, the language of web pages, is a sexually transmitted disease.
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Researchers are
debating on adding
Internet addiction
to the list of mental disorders.
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The first webcam was created in Cambridge to check the status of a coffee pot.
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9 million adults in Britain have never used the internet.
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Psychologists examined Internet trolls and found that they are "narcissistic, psychopathic, and sadistic".
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50% of Internet users will quit waiting for a video to load after 10 seconds.
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The Philippines has the slowest Internet speed in Southeast Asia: 3.54 Mbps.
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Internet Users Send 204 Million Emails Per Minute.
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UK's Internet Porn Filter Architect was Arrested On Child Porn Offences in 2014.
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China has more internet users on mobile devices than on PCs.
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70%
of all emails sent are spam.
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One-third of Italians have never used the Internet.
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The "Fi" in "WiFi" doesn't mean anything. It was called it that because it rhymed with "HiFi".
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By the end of 1993, there were only 623 websites on the World Wide Web.
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6%
of the world's population has an Internet addiction.
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"LOL" used to mean "lots of love" before the Internet.
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Only 37.9% of people have access to the Internet once a year or more.
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In 2010, Finland became the first country in the world to make Internet access a legal right.
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The first thing ever bought and sold across the Internet was a bag of marijuana around 1971.
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The current library at Alexandria has a copy of all the web pages on every website on the Internet since it started in 1996.
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If the Internet went down for a day, 196 billion emails and 3 billion Google searches would have to wait.
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Thanks to his Internet popularity, the child from the "Success Kid" meme made enough money to fund his dad's kidney transplant.
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The first online transaction ever was
Stanford students buying marijuana from MIT students.
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India has more people using the internet than the entire population of the U.S.
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Estonian ID cards have a chip with public-private key pair used to sign documents and vote in elections via the internet. For their 2011 election, 24% of the votes were cast online.
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NASA's Internet connection is 13,000 times faster than The average U.S. user, at 91 gigabits per second.
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The man who invented pop-up ads has apologized to the world for creating one of the Internet's most hated forms of advertising.
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People who spend a lot of time on the internet are more likely to be depressed, lonely and mentally unstable, a study found.
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Disconnecting people from the Internet is a human rights violation according to the United Nations.
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Search Engines can only access 0.03% of the Internet. The rest is known as the "deep web."
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In 2016, North Korea accidentally leaked its DNS data, showing they only have 28 ".kp" domains. In comparison, there are 10 million ".uk" domains.
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Estonia became the first nation to hold legally binding general elections over the Internet in 2005.
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Seven people have keys with the power to restart the World Wide Web in the event of a catastrophic event.
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Ellen DeGeneres' famous Oscar selfie was retweeted 3.3 million times.
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The 1989 article that proposed the acronym LOL also suggested using ‘H' to mean ‘Huh?'
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The online encyclopaedia dedicated to Lego is called ‘Brickipedia'.
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Amazon.com sold its first book in July 1995: "Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies."
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Snapchat founders had tried nearly 34 projects before coming up with the social network.
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Netflix has been around longer than Google.
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Porn websites attract more visitors each month than Amazon, Netflix, and Twitter combined.
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When Facebook acquired Instagram for about $1 billion, the company had just 13 employees.
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"Mouse potato" is someone who spends a lot of time at a computer.
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The U.S. government gave Indiana University $1 million to study memes.
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In 1997, Pope John Paul II decided that St. Isidore of Seville would be the patron saint of the Internet and computer repairmen.
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In Japanese, "e" can be translated to "image," and "moji" can be translated to "character", so "emoji" is literally "image character."
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Snapchat's mascot has name: Ghostface Chillah.
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Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the web, has one regret: the double slash "//" in URLs. He believes it was unnecessary.
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Earl Wild, the first person to play the piano on U.S. television was also the first to stream a performance on the Internet 58 year later.
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At least 1 in every 10,000 people living today
has a page about them on Wikipedia.
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In 1973, the entire Internet consisted of only 42 computers.
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Over 3 in 4 U.S. workers use social media at work, even if it's banned.
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Montana became, in 2018, the first state to make net neutrality mandatory.
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Netflix is responsible for 15% of global Internet traffic.
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