BB 11/18/15

Good morning Phoenix! It’s hump day, and that means it’s Wacky Wednesday time!

Here’s 30 facts you may not have known about the internet:

• China has treatment camps for internet addicts.

• 37% of the web is porn.

• 30,000 web sites are hacked every day.

• There’s high speed internet on the way up to Mt. Everest.

• The majority of internet traffic is not generated by humans, but by bots like Google, and malware.

• When Montenegro became independent from Yugoslavia, their internet domain name changed from .yu to .me.

• A US journalist faces 105 years in jail for posting a link on the web.

• 15% of American adults do not use the internet.

• One in ten Americans thinks html, the language of webpages, is a sexually transmitted disease.

• Researchers are debating about adding internet addiction to the list of mental disorders.

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

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

• 9 Million adults in Britain have never used the internet.

• Psychologists examined internet trolls and found that they are narcissistic, psychopathic, and sadistic.

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

• The Philippines has the slowest internet speed in the entire Southeast Asia region at an average speed of 3.54 Mb per second.

• Internet users send 204 million emails per minute.

• UK’s internet porn filter architect was arrested on child porn offenses.

• China has more internet users on mobile devices than on PC’s.

• 70% of all the emails sent are spam.

• One third of Italians have never used the internet.

• The “fi” in WiFi doesn’t mean anything. The creators just called it that because it rhymed with “HiFi”.

• By the end of 1993, there were only 623 web sites on the world wide web.

• 6% of the world’s population has an internet addiction.

• LOL used to mean “Lots of Love” before the internet.

• Only 37.9 % of people have access to the internet once per year or more.

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

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

• The first email was sent in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson to himself. He didn’t remember what it said.

• The first YouTube video was uploaded on April 23, 2005. It’s called “Me at the Zoo” and features one of the founders of the website at the San Diego Zoo, Jawed Karim.

Have a fangtastic day my friends!  <3 Brock V"""V