Did You Know?

A friend who knows I'm a sucker for trivia sent me a link to a fun article called "29 Interesting Facts About The Internet You Really Need To Know". 

Some of my favorite facts: 

• Approximately 3.2 billion people use the internet. Of those, 1.7 billion are Asians.

• China has treatment camps for internet addicts.

• 30,000 websites are hacked every day.

• The first webcam was created at the University Of Cambridge to monitor the Trojan coffee pot.

• ”Gangnam Style ” by PSY is still the most viewed videos of all time (with more than 2,840,000,000 views).

• The first tweet was sent by Jack Dorsey on March 21, 2006, and the first YouTube video (“Meet At Zoo”) was uploaded by Jawed Karim at 8:27 p.m. on April 23, 2005.

• Approximately 9 Million adults in Britain and one-third of Italians have never used the internet.

• The term ‘surfing’ the internet originated in 1992, courtesy of a New York librarian whose name was Jean Armour Polly.

• In 2010 Finland became the first country to make the internet access a legal right.

• Almost half of the world’s population are internet users, and nearly half of them have Facebook accounts.

• Every minute 72 hours of YouTube video content is being uploaded.

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