Part 5 - The Internet

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#1 - The first website is still available to visit (http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/www/theproject.html).

#2 - China has treatment camps for Internet addicts.

#3 - 30,000 websites are hacked every day.

#4 - There's high-speed Internet on the way up to Mount Everest.

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

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

#7 - In 2015, a U.S. journalist was sentenced to 5 years in jail for posting a link on the web.

#8 - 15% of American adults do not use the Internet.

#9 - Researchers are debating on adding Internet addiction to the list of mental disorders.

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

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

#12 - 9 million adults in Britain have never used the internet.

#13 - Psychologists examined Internet trolls and found that they are "narcissistic, psychopathic, and sadistic".

#14 - 50% of Internet users will quit waiting for a video to load after 10 seconds.

#15 - The Philippines has the slowest Internet speed in Southeast Asia: 3.54 Mbps.

#16 - Internet Users Send 204 Million Emails Per Minute.

#17 - China has more internet users on mobile devices than on PCs.

#18 - 70% of all emails sent are spam.

#19 - One-third of Italians have never used the Internet.

#20 - The "Fi" in "WiFi" doesn't mean anything. It was called it that because it rhymed with "HiFi".

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

#22 - 6% of the world's population has an Internet addiction.

#23 - "LOL" used to mean "lots of love" before the Internet.

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

#25 - In 2010, Finland became the first country in the world to make Internet access a legal right (now I want to live there even more...)

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

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

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

#29 - Thanks to his Internet popularity, the child from the "Success Kid" meme made enough money to fund his dad's kidney transplant.

#30 - India has more people using the internet than the entire population of the U.S.

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