Random Internet Facts

    38 facts tagged with Internet Facts

    Free Wi-Fi
    Free Wi-Fi
    Taiwan became the first country in the world to offer free Wi-Fi connectivity to its citizens and all its foreign tourists.
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    Grumpy Cat
    Grumpy Cat
    The cat featured in the popular internet meme "grumpy cat" has a permanently grumpy face due to feline dwarfism. Her real name is Tardar Sauce.
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    Strange Illuminati Web Address Takes You to NSA
    Typing 'illuminati' backwards into the address bar, followed by '.com', will take you to U.S. government's National Security Agency website.
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    According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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    BackRub
    BackRub
    Google was originally called "BackRub".
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    Amazon sells more e-books than printed books.
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    The ‘@’ sign is centuries old, and was used in Europe to denote a unit of weight (the “arroba”) equivalent to 25 lbs.
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    CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
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