15 Most Astonishing Facts About The Internet

The internet has become a place that billions of people can access around the world. Pretty much everybody now has internet connection and the vast majority of people use the Internet and engage in the social media like Facebook and twitter more than they actually watch TV. 

However, how much do you really know about the Internet revolution?

Let’s take a closer look at this list of fun facts about the Internet that you most likely didn’t know about already.

Fact #1. 30,000 websites are hacked on a daily basis. Source

Fact #2. One-third of Italians have never used the Internet. Source

Fact #3.  1 in 10 Americans thinks HTML (the code of web pages) is an STD                     (Sexually Transmitted Disease). Source

Fact #4.  15% of American adults do not use the internet. Source

Fact #5.  More than 144,000 dot com domain names are registered on the web                 everyday. Source

Fact #6.  9 Million adults in Britain have never used internet. Source

Fact #7.  50% of Internet users will give up waiting for a video to load right                      after 10 seconds. Source

Fact #8.  The Philippines has the slowest Internet speed in the whole Southeast                 Asian area with an average speed of 3.54 Mbps. Source

Fact #9. Internet Users Send 204 Million Emails Per Minute. Source

Fact #10.  By the end of 1993, there were only 623 websites on the                                  World Wide Web Source

Fact #11.  In 2010, Finland became the first country in the world to make                          Internet access a legal right. Source

Fact #12.  The very first thing purchased and sold throughout the Web was a                     bag of Marijuana around 1971. Source

Fact #13.  The present library at Alexandria has a copy of all the web pages on                   every website on the Internet since it started in 1996. Source

Fact #14.  India has more internet users than the entire population of the U.S.                  Source

Fact #15.  37% of the web is pornography. Source

So these may possibly be surprisingly interesting facts about the internet we use today. Have you got any other intriguing truth about the internet, feel free to share your opinion with us.