General Affairs

  1 . The Dark Web is part of the Deep Web. In simple terms, Deep Web is the part of the internet that isn't cataloged by search engines. The Dark Web specifically is where most of the illegal and disturbing stuff takes place. 2 .The Dark Web is a huge marketplace for criminals and is said to generate at least $500,000 per day. 3 .To access the Dark Web, though we wouldn't recommend it, your standard browser isn't going to cut it. You need to get The Onion Router, or Tor for short. Tor is both a browser and a network running a specialized applications network with volunteer computers. 4 .A study done in 2001 by the University of California discovered that the Dark Web had 7.5 petabyes (7,500 gigabytes) of information. In two years, that number increased by 91,850 petabytes. 5 .It should be no surprise that a place called the Dark Web would be full of scams. In one case, however, people kept falling for an elaborate scam to hire hitmen. Called Besa Mafia, the website claimed...

  1 . The average growth rate of internet users is 8.2% per year. The number of internet users increases at an average rate of 8.2% a year. Compared to this, the global population increases at an average rate of just 1.05% annually. After the radio was invented, it took 38 years to reach 50 million users. It took 75 years for the telephone to do the same. However, the internet around the world has managed to reach 50 million users in just four years. 2 . More than 25% of websites are in English. The most popular language by far on the internet is English. 25.9% of the internet is in English, 19.4% is in Chinese, and 8% is in Spanish. 3 . Asia has the largest number of internet users with over 2.8 billion. To answer the question of how many countries have internet access, we’ll start with regions. Internet world stats show that Asia is the continent with the highest number of internet users in the world, over 2.8 billion. Europe takes second place with less than half of this number,...

  YouTube has a massive following and is extremely popular around the world, but there’s probably a lot you don’t know about it. Today, YouTube has expanded to include tutorials, reviews, videos, music videos, skits, and other content. It has so much content that it is enough to satisfy anyone’s entertainment needs. Let’s broaden your understanding of YouTube by going through some of the interesting facts about YouTube. 1. YouTube was launched on Valentine’s Day. The domain was activated on February 14th, 2005, but the video upload feature wasn’t added until April 23 of that year. Jawed Karim, a co-founder, posted the first video a little over two months later. 2. Paypal has a long connection with YouTube. Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, the three YouTube founders, all worked for PayPal. They funded the site’s early development with money they received from eBay’s purchase of PayPal. 3. YouTube was originally a dating site. Next on our list of interesting facts about YouT...