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33 Interesting Facts about The Internet

The Internet is a global network connecting millions of computers. More than 190 countries are linked into exchanges of data, news and opinions.


According to Internet Live Stats, as of August 07, 2015 there was an estimated 3,179,035,200 Internet users worldwide. The number of Internet users represents nearly 40 percent of the world’s population. The largest number of Internet users by country is China, followed by the United States and India.


Here are 33 incredible facts about the Internet :


  1. China has treatment camps for Internet addicts.

  2. When Montenegro became independent from Yugoslavia, its Internet domain name went from .yu to .me.

  3. 30,000 websites are hacked every day.

  4. India has more people using the internet than the entire population of the U.S.

  5. There’s high-speed Internet on the way up to Mount Everest.

  6. The majority of Internet traffic is not generated by humans, but bots like Google and Malware.

  7. 37% of the web is PORN

  8. “LOL” used to mean “lots of love” before the Internet.

  9. A U.S. journalist faces 105 years in jail for posting a link on the web.

  10. 15% of American adults do not use the Internet.

  11. 1 in 10 Americans thinks HTML –the language of web pages– is a sexually transmitted disease.

  12. Researchers are debating on adding Internet addiction to the list of mental disorders.

  13. The first webcam was created in Cambridge to check the status of a coffee pot.

  14. Over 100,000 new dot com domains are registered on the web every day.

  15. 9 million adults in Britain have never used the internet.

  16. Psychologists examined Internet trolls and found that they are “narcissistic, psychopathic, and sadistic”.

  17. 50% of Internet users will quit waiting for a video to load after 10 seconds.

  18. The Philippines has the slowest Internet speed in the entire Southeast Asian region with an average speed of 3.54 Mbps.

  19. The first online transaction ever was Stanford students buying marijuana from MIT students.

  20. Internet Users Send 204 Million Emails Per Minute.

  21. UK’s Internet Porn Filter Architect was Arrested On Child Porn Offences.

  22. China has more internet users on mobile devices than on PCs.

  23. 70% of all the emails sent are spam.

  24. One-third of Italians have never used the Internet.

  25. The “Fi” in “WiFi” doesn’t mean anything. The creators just called it that because it rhymed with “HiFi”.

  26. By the end of 1993, there were only 623 websites on the World Wide Web.

  27. 6% of the world’s population has an Internet addiction.

  28. Only 37.9% of people have access to the Internet once a year or more.

  29. In 2010, Finland became the first country in the world to make Internet access a legal right.

  30. The first thing ever bought and sold across the Internet was a bag of marijuana around 1971.

  31. The current library at Alexandria has a copy of all the web pages on every website on the Internet since it started in 1996.

  32. If the Internet went down for a day, 196 billion emails and 3 billion Google searches would have to wait.

  33. 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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