Random 20 Internet Facts

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  "internet_facts": [
    "The first ever website was published on August 6, 1991, by Tim Berners-Lee.",
    "The first email was sent by Ray Tomlinson in 1971.",
    "The concept of the World Wide Web was proposed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989.",
    "Google processes over 40,000 search queries every second on average.",
    "The internet requires 50 million horsepower to keep running in current state.",
    "The most common use of the internet is sending and receiving email.",
    "YouTube is the second largest search engine on the internet, after Google.",
    "There are over 1.7 billion websites on the internet as of 2021.",
    "The internet is estimated to weigh about 50 grams.",
    "The first webcam was created in Cambridge University to monitor the Trojan coffee pot.",
    "The 'www' in a website's URL stands for World Wide Web.",
    "The most expensive domain name ever sold is LasVegas.com, which was sold for $90 million.",
    "The first item sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.",
    "The internet's symbol, the '@' symbol, is called the 'at sign'.",
    "The internet could fit into a container the size of a shoebox if it were made of copper.",
    "The first internet domain name registered was Symbolics.com on March 15, 1985.",
    "The term 'surfing' the internet was coined in 1992 by Jean Armour Polly.",
    "The internet took just 4 years to reach its first 50 million users.",
    "The first banner ad on the internet was launched in 1994 by AT&T.",
    "The internet as we know it today is estimated to be about 12,000 petabytes in size."
  ]
}