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The Internet and Don’t get your wires crossed! It’s easy to

get techno-terms muddled up, but make
the World Wide Web no mistake here. The Internet is a network

of computers and cables, while the Web is
are the same thing the collection of pages surfed online.

Internet users around FAST FACTS
the world can choose MORE THAN
to log onto any of tens 75 PERCENT
of billions of websites.
OF ALL E-MAILS
ARE CONSIDERED
SPAM AND
LEFT UNOPENED
The first commercial spam message was sent
in 1978, but the definition of the word spam
as “unwanted messages” was not added to a
major English dictionary until 1998. About
183 billion spam messages are sent every day.
TWITTER USERS SEND OVER
340,000 NEW TWEETS
EACH MINUTE
And YouTube users
upload 400 hours of
new video every minute.
There are tens of
billions of websites, and
this number is growing
all the time as new
websites are created.

THE SPACE BAR
Which
continent
has the most IS THE MOST POPULAR
Internet users? KEY ON A KEYBOARD
If both keyboards and cell phones are included,
the space bar is pressed six million times during
any given second. So, in the tenth of a second
it takes you to press the space bar, there are
600,000 others around the world doing the
same thing. The next most popular key
worldwide is the letter “e”.

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