9 Interesting Facts about Internet that You don’t Know

Internet, a place where everything has been brought into being and the world permits you to step into to find answers for all your quests. At present, a life without Internet is unconceivable as we use it from surfing to collecting information. Let’s take a look at few interesting facts that you possibly didn’t know as of now and have been classified particularly for you.

• By the end of 1993, there were only 623 websites on the World Wide Web

• There’s high-speed Internet on the way up to Mount Everest

• There are 7 people in the world who hold the “key to the internet,” able to reboot an integral part of the system if in a catastrophic situation it gets shut down

• The first thing ever bought and sold across the Internet was a bag of marijuana around 1971

• The first website is still online

• The first webcam was created in Cambridge to check the status of a coffee pot

• If the Internet went down for a day, 196 billion emails and 3 billion Google searches would have to wait

• Over 100,000 new dot com domains are registered on the web every day

• NASA’s Internet Connection is 13,000 times faster than the average U.S. user, at 91 gigabits per second