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10 Crazy Facts From Internet History

10 Crazy Facts From Internet History

 

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

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Posted on: July 9, 2013, 6:23 am Category: Uncategorized

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