10 myths, facts and curiosities about the Internet.

1) 40% of the earth is connected to the internet. In the UN report released last year that amounted to nearly three billion people.

2) The internet is not the web and the web is not the internet. The internet was invented long before the web and the web would not exist without the internet. The roots of the internet go back to the invention of the modem in 1958, a massive infrastructure that connects millions of computers worldwide. The World Wide Web is a vast system of hypertext documents linked and accessed on the Internet.

3) A girl-only band starred in the first image posted online. The first photo upload to the web was in 1992, a behind-the-scenes photo of a girl-only rock band with physics-themed songs called Les Horribles Cernettes, which was founded in 1990.

4) Social network users like Facebook and Twitter will spend 10% of their lives on the networks, according to London City Girl Magazine.

5) One-third of newly married couples in the world met online, according to Forbes.

6) The first couple to meet online in the world completed 20 years of relationship in 2015.

7) China is the country with the largest number of Internet users, followed by the United States, India, Japan and Brazil, according to the Internet Live Stats.

8) South Korea is the country with the best connection quality in the world. The worst is Libya. Brazil is 89th in the connection speed ranking.

9) Surfing the internet and clicking can burn up to 100 calories per hour.

10) On April 30, 1993 the World Wide Web became available to all for free. The main feature of the WWW is to remain in the public domain, which would give anyone the freedom to use it.

Internet indeed is a great invention and it plays major role in modern technology world. Services like Du Home Internet provides ultra-fast internet services so that you can connect with your friends, family and co-workers.