China has treatment camps for Internet addicts.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

37%

of the web is porn.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

30,000 websites are hacked every day.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

There's high-speed Internet on the way up to Mount Everest.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

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

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

When Montenegro became independent from Yugoslavia, its Internet domain name went from .yu to .me.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

In 2015, a U.S. journalist was sentenced to 5 years in jail for posting a link on the web.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

15%

of American adults do not use the Internet.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

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

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

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

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

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

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

Over 100,000

new dot com domains

are registered on the web

every day.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

9 million adults in Britain have never used the internet.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

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

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

50% of Internet users will quit waiting for a video to load after 10 seconds.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

The Philippines has the slowest Internet speed in Southeast Asia: 3.54 Mbps.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

Internet Users Send 204 Million Emails Per Minute.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

UK's Internet Porn Filter Architect was Arrested On Child Porn Offences in 2014.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

China has more internet users on mobile devices than on PCs.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

70%

of all emails sent are spam.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

One-third of Italians have never used the Internet.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

The "Fi" in "WiFi" doesn't mean anything. It was called it that because it rhymed with "HiFi".

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

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

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

6%

of the world's population has an Internet addiction.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

"LOL" used to mean "lots of love" before the Internet.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

Only 37.9% of people have access to the Internet once a year or more.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

In 2010, Finland became the first country in the world to make Internet access a legal right.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

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

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

The current library at Alexandria has a copy of all the web pages on every website on the Internet since it started in 1996.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

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

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

Thanks to his Internet popularity, the child from the "Success Kid" meme made enough money to fund his dad's kidney transplant.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

The first online transaction ever was

Stanford students buying marijuana from MIT students.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

India has more people using the internet than the entire population of the U.S.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

Estonian ID cards have a chip with public-private key pair used to sign documents and vote in elections via the internet. For their 2011 election, 24% of the votes were cast online.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

NASA's Internet connection is 13,000 times faster than The average U.S. user, at 91 gigabits per second.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

The man who invented pop-up ads has apologized to the world for creating one of the Internet's most hated forms of advertising.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

People who spend a lot of time on the internet are more likely to be depressed, lonely and mentally unstable, a study found.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

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

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

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

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

In 2016, North Korea accidentally leaked its DNS data, showing they only have 28 ".kp" domains. In comparison, there are 10 million ".uk" domains.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

Estonia became the first nation to hold legally binding general elections over the Internet in 2005.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

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

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

Ellen DeGeneres' famous Oscar selfie was retweeted 3.3 million times.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

The 1989 article that proposed the acronym LOL also suggested using ‘H' to mean ‘Huh?'

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

The online encyclopaedia dedicated to Lego is called ‘Brickipedia'.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

Amazon.com sold its first book in July 1995: "Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies."

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

Snapchat founders had tried nearly 34 projects before coming up with the social network.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

Netflix has been around longer than Google.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

Porn websites attract more visitors each month than Amazon, Netflix, and Twitter combined.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

When Facebook acquired Instagram for about $1 billion, the company had just 13 employees.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

"Mouse potato" is someone who spends a lot of time at a computer.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

The U.S. government gave Indiana University $1 million to study memes.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

In 1997, Pope John Paul II decided that St. Isidore of Seville would be the patron saint of the Internet and computer repairmen.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

In Japanese, "e" can be translated to "image," and "moji" can be translated to "character", so "emoji" is literally "image character."

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

Snapchat's mascot has name: Ghostface Chillah.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the web, has one regret: the double slash "//" in URLs. He believes it was unnecessary.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

Earl Wild, the first person to play the piano on U.S. television was also the first to stream a performance on the Internet 58 year later.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

At least 1 in every 10,000 people living today

has a page about them on Wikipedia.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

In 1973, the entire Internet consisted of only 42 computers.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

Over 3 in 4 U.S. workers use social media at work, even if it's banned.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

Montana became, in 2018, the first state to make net neutrality mandatory.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE

Netflix is responsible for 15% of global Internet traffic.

♦ SOURCE
♺ SHARE
next
Updated on 2018-10-15
Asia
America
Africa
Europe
Oceania
Antarctica
U.S.A.
United Nations
Cities
Places
Historic Events
People & Civilizations
Social Issues
Life & Love
Tech & Invention
Humor & Offbeat
Religion
Books & Language
Movies & TV
Art & Music
Food & Drink
Business & Economy
Sports & Games
Science
Animals & other lifeforms
Body & Health
Space
Global Issues
Phenomena
Plants & Minerals
World
History
Society
Nature
X
share
 
  
book
FACTSLIDES BOOK
book cover Introducing our first book:

1001 Facts to Make your Brain Explode!

Even if you visit Factslides.com every day to get your dosis of new facts —just like over 1 million visitors do every month—, in this book you'll find facts you've never seen before!
Check it out on Amazon »