We all like fun facts on any topic that catches our attention. I bring you 10 curious facts that maybe you did not know about the internet, from how many people look for things that are not, to the impact that the internet has brought to have everyone connected. The data is represented as an infographic in English, but I also bring you the same list in Spanish.
- Humans only create 49% of the entire internet traffic, the rest is created by robots.
- 200,000 users signed up to AOL for internet access in 2011
- The "deep web" (sites that are not indexed) is at least 500 times bigger than the web.
- Internet speed on the International Space Station is higher than the average speed in Australia.
- Latvia is the 4th country with the fastest average internet speed. The United States is 14th
- It took 4 years for 50,000,000 people to have access to the Internet, while it took 13 years for television and 18 years for radio to reach that figure.
- The first website was created in 1991. It can be viewed at http://info.cern.ch
- About 1/3 of all internet searches involve pornography. It is estimated that at least 65% of images on the internet are of naked women.
- The 19% of married couples met on the internet.
- The first webcam was used at the University of Cambridge in 1993 to monitor a cup of coffee in a laboratory.
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