10 Crazy Facts From Internet History
- Roughly one out of every three internet searches is for porn.
- Despite the prevalence of porn-related searches, it’s expected that the porn world only constitutes about 1.1% of the internet at large.
- One in six marriages today occur because the couple met online.
- There are sites out there for people looking for effective suicide instructions.
- Commercial activity online used to be explicitly banned.
- “Internet” is a short for a longer term.
- The first-ever webcam was used to watch a pot of coffee.
- YouTube’s copyright-checking software scans over 100 years of video every day.
- Garfield the cartoon cat once offered a free email service at Gmail.com.
- The entire World Wide Web used to be just one computer.
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