Interesting facts about the internet

Below are some of the facts most people did not know about the internet. Read and share, please do not be stingy.

Over 3 mil emails are sent per second

1. The internet and the World Wide Web are not the same thing: the internet is a massive network of computers; the World Wide Web is a means of accessing and sharing information across it.

2. Almost half the world’s population are internet users and almost half of those are on Facebook.

3. Over 3 million emails are sent every second.

4. The term URL for a web address stands for Uniform Resource Locater.

5. China has a treatment centre for internet addicts at a military hospital in Beijing.

6. In 1997, Pope John Paul II nominated St Isidor of Seville, who wrote a 20-volume encyclopedia in the 7th century, as Patron Saint of the Internet, though it is not yet official.

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

8. When Montenegro declared independence from Yugoslavia in 2006, its Internet domain suffix was changed from .yu to .me.