Internet by The Numbers: Cool Facts and Figures

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The internet has been growing at an astounding rate since its inception in the late 1990’s. Its estimated by Internet World Stats that there were only 16 million users online at the end of 1995 (0.4% of world population) and this number has since grown to 5.3 billion as of 2022. There are around 1.14 billion websites in the World, according to

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Domain vs. Website: What’s the difference?

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You can think of an internet domain as your street address, while the actual website is your office building where customers visit. After buying a domain, you have purchased the name for your site, but you still need to build and host the website separately. Why is a good website domain important? When choosing a domain name, you want people to be

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10 Internet Browsing Tricks You Probably Never Knew Existed

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Learn how to get free music downloads, access blocked websites, and optimize your internet browsing with these cool tips. 1. Get Free Music Downloads With the use of some clever Google operators, you can easily find free music downloads online. Simply type the following in your search bar and replace “your favorite band” with the artist you’re searching for: -inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of”

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How to Stop Facebook from Collecting your Browsing History

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Facebook has announced that it plans to start using information gathered from your browser history to better serve its advertisers. Here is how to stop them. Facebook has promoted the use of “like” buttons and comment boxes across the web in order to collect valuable data about its users. Now, the platform has announced its passing this information along to its advertisers

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