Internet History Facts

One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.

The domain name www.youtube.com was registered on February 14, 2005.

At its peak in April 2008, MySpace boasted over 115 million monthly visitors. Were it a country, it would have been roughly the 10th largest in the world, exceeding the population of Mexico at the time.

Justin Timberlake's half-eaten french toast sold for over $3,000 on eBay!

Approximately 365 million people in the world have computers while half of the world's 6.5 billion population has never seen or used a telephone.

Gary Kremen, founder of match.com, lost his girlfriend to a man she met on match.com.

Somalia boasts the highest percentage growth of Internet users in the world going from a mere 200 in 2000 to 90,000 in 2007

In 1999, Pokémon was the second most searched topic on the internet. The first was pornography.

Google was originally called "BackRub".

The Pirate Bay tried buying their own island in hopes of making their own country with no copyright laws.