1. Norway has 98% of its population on the internet.
2. America has been charged $400 billion for a fibre internet that never came.
3. The internet reached a market audience of 50 million users in 5 years.
4.AOL spent $300 million to mail CD-Roms.
5. 7 million GeoCities sites were shut down in 2009.
In the early days of the internet, GeoCities was one of the first places everyday people could create their own place on the web. It usually resulted in poor quality personal websites. In 2009, however, Yahoo! decided to shut down the entire operation, resulting in 7 million websites removed from the internet completely.
6.IMDb has been around since the 1990s.
7. 30,000 websites are hacked every day.
8.500 million tweets are sent every day.
9. Internet traffic is mostly by bots and malware, not humans.
10. China has treatment camps for internet addicts.
With 632 million internet users in China, many believe 23 million of them are addicted to it. So, in an effort to curb addiction, China created boot camps to turn their children around. They consider anyone spending six hours or more a day on the internet to be addicted to it.
11. Online dating generates approximately 2.2 billion dollars every year.
12. 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute.
13. The inventor of the web was knighted by Queen Elizabeth.
Considered “The Father of the Web,” Tim Berners-Lee helped design the system to better navigate the internet. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 2003 for his work.
14. The first tweet was posted on March 21, 2006, by Jack Dorsey.
15. Around 247 billion emails are sent in one day.
It’s estimated by Radicati Group that around 247 billion emails are sent every day. However, about 90% of them are SPAM and viruses. So, be careful what emails you open.
16. The world’s first website still exists.
In March 1989, the first website went live. Believe it or not, it’s still in existence today and it’s looking just as barebones as it likely did back then.