18 Mind-Blowing Facts About The Internet

The first emoticon is commonly credited to Kevin Mackenzie in 1979, but was a rather simple -) and didn’t really look like a face. 3 years later, 🙂 was proposed by Scott Fahlman and has become the norm.

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Psychologists examined Internet trolls and found that they are “narcissistic, psychopathic, and sadistic”.

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Seven people have keys with the power to restart the World Wide Web in the event of a catastrophic event.

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Search Engines can only access 0.03% of the Internet. The rest is known as the “deep web.”

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Disconnecting people from the Internet is a human rights violation according to the United Nations.

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

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Most people believe other people’s social lives are richer and more active than their own, a study found.

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Google delisted 1.75 billion websites because of copyright takedown requests.

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Researchers are debating on adding Internet addiction to the list of mental disorders.

1 in 10 Americans thinks HTML –the language of web pages– is a sexually transmitted disease.

Researchers are debating on adding Internet addiction to the list of mental disorders.

The majority of Internet traffic is not generated by humans, but bots like Google and Malware.