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 * So what's so cool about the Internet: **
 * There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.
 * MySpace hosts over 110 million registered users.
 * By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.
 * The average 21 year old has spent 5,000 hours playing video games, has exchanged 250,000 e-mails, instant and text messages and has spent 10,000 hours on the mobile phone.
 * As currently built, there is room for 4.3 billion addresses on the Internet. One-third of those are already in use.
 * E-mail has been around than the World Wide Web.
 * Somalia, a north-African country, boasts the highest percentage growth of Internet users in the world going from a mere 200 in 2000 to 90,000 in 2007
 * Iceland has the most Internet users per capita of any country in the world with over 86 percent of people using the Web, compared with only 69 percent of Americans.
 * About 183 billion e-mail messages are sent every day by about 1.2 billion e-mail users around the world.
 * The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.
 * The world's first computer, called the Z1, was invented by Konrad Zuse in 1936. His next invention, the Z2 was finished in 1939 and was the first fully functioning electro-mechanical computer.
 * 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.
 * The pound key (#) symbol's true name is octothorpe.
 * The chess-playing computer created by IBM called Deep Blue defeated world champion Garry Kasparov in a game of chess in May 1997. Kasparov demanded a rematch, to which IBM replied with a resounding, "no way."
 * No, Al Gore didn't "invent" the Internet, but he was part of the congressional body that funded it in an effort to connect the government with all the agencies and institutes of higher education who needed to talk to each other about the research for the government contracts in which they all had a hand.

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