What are some mind blowing facts about the internet?

 

1. There is a website that makes everything okay
2. The content of the web in 1993 was just 400 terabytes. It is now 1.5 zettabytes, or one-and-a-half trillion gigabytes
3. Do you know what Gmail is? Or who it originally belonged to? Garfield, that fat orange cat who loves lasagne. Gmail was used by Garfield fans to talk amongst themselves and Google bought the name from Garfield.com, most likely paying with Italian delicacies
4. The deep web is not to be mistaken for the dark web, a part of the internet that has some pretty effed-up stuff on it. The deep web is at least 500 times larger than the “surface Web” that consists of web pages indexed by popular search engines like Google or Yahoo. The dark web is used to sell things on the black market such as weapons, drugs and even hitman contracts
5. Speaking of which, the first thing ever to be bought via the internet was a bag of marijuana in 1971
6. Potatoes absorb wifi radio signals similar to the way that the human body does, meaning airlines were able to test whether or not it was a possibility with sacks of spuds as substitutes. The crew probably got hash browns with their raise, too
7. Roughly 2,300,000 Gigabytes (2.3 petabytes) of data traffic has been distributed across the internet since you started reading this answer. That’s roughly the same as the estimated storage capacity of the human brain.
8. From July 2005 to July 2006, Canadian blogger Kyle MacDonald bargained his way from a single paperclip to a house in a series of fourteen online trades in scarcely under a year. This incredible series of transactions included trading a movie role for a two-story farmhouse. Gordon Miller, you have a competitor!