A bag of marijuana was the first thing ever bought and sold over the internet.
22
In 1999, Pokémon was the second most searched topic on the internet. The first was pornography.
23
45% of all online gamers are female, and women over the age of 18 are the industry's fastest growing demographic.
15
IMDb is one of the oldest websites on the internet, and began on Usenet in 1990 as a list of "actresses with beautiful eyes".
11
In 2013, AOL declared that they still made over $500 million a year through dial-up internet subscriptions.
8
According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
8
Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have expressed their desire to see the search engine become artificial intelligence itself. To achieve that goal, they created the highly-protected “X lab.”
-7