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10 Facts You Probably Didn't Know About the Internet

10 Facts You Probably Didn't Know About the Internet


In 1993, there were 623 registered web pages on the internet. Today, in 2016, there are significantly more and no one can really keep the bill on it anymore. The internet is a big part of our everyday lives and society more or less collapses if there are disruptions in the internet. Here are ten other interesting and fun facts you need to know about what you are using at the time of writing.

01) China has treatment centers for patients with an Internet addiction.

02) About 37% of all the material on the internet consists of porn or allusions to sex.

03) About 30,000 websites are hacked around the world daily. No wonder the phenomenon is called cyber war.



04) Are you thinking of climbing the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest? Well, just don't forget your phone or tablet, as the mountain is equipped with high speed internet. Exactly what you want to do with 20 minus degrees.

05) The majority of all traffic on the internet is not generated by us humans, but cured. An example is Google cures filtering their search engine.

06) An American journalist has been sentenced to 105 years in prison for posting a link on the internet.

07) 10% of the American population believe that HTML accounts for any infectious venereal disease.08) A group of researchers want to add the phenomenon of "internet addiction" to the list of mental illnesses.

09) The first webcam was created by a student at Cambridge University in the United States. The purpose may not be the same as today, when it was created so that he could keep track of the coffee maker without getting up. Does this confirm the nerd's laziness?

10) Over 100,000 .com addresses are registered daily. Shouldn't they end soon?

Bonus) Nine million adult Britons have never used the internet. Similarly, a third of the Italian population has never used the Internet.

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