15 Interesting facts about the Internet

Zimbabwe has the most expensive internet connection in the world, averaging $75 for 1 GB of data.
This year in 2020, there will be 4.3 billion users of the internet around the world. that is like 56% of the whole population on Earth.
Ukraine has the cheapest Internet cable connection in the world with a monthly cost of only $5 for 50 GB of data.

By 2021 in India by the current growth of internet users it is estimated that 600 million people will use the Internet in India alone. Even with that number that accounts for only 17 percent of the population.
Check the population of USA and double that, that is the number of internet users in China.

The very first website in the world is still online, you can go check it out > http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
In China Internet is censored, sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Flickr are all unavailable. Though access can be attained by using VPN, there are rules in China that will land the VPN users in trouble if caught.
The first Wi-Fi was lauched in 1990, so in September 2020 Wi-Fi will mark its 30th birthday.

Every hour 5000 domain names are registered on the internet.
Internet access is not generally available in North Korea. Tourists however can gain access by using their passports and buying a 3G sim card.
Google made $160.74 billion in revenue last year.
The first video ever on Youtube was uploaded on April 23, 2005 you can see it here.
Youtube's first ever video
Larry Page the co-founder of Google has a net worth of $63 Billion as of May 2020.
The very first mobile internet was launched in Finland in 1996 in their phone the Nokia Communicator 9000 however due to expensive prices for data it did not become popular. Only in 2000s did the mobile internet become more practical and affordable for use.

SpaceX recently launched a batch of Starlink satellites to orbit, 482 satellites as of now and 42,000 by the end of the mission. This will help provide internet services to countries where internet by cable connectivity is not possible. The satellites will also help communication with Mars later during manned Mars exploration by NASA and SpaceX.