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Here are five interesting facts about the internet that you may not know:

#1 the internet was created by the US Department of Defense in the 1960s as a way to share information between universities and research institutions.

#2 the first website was created on August 6th, 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee, a computer scientist at CERN.

#3 the first email was sent in 1971, and it took five years for the first spam email to be sent in 1978.

#4 there are more than 4.9 billion active internet users globally, with over 3 billion of them being social media users.

#5 the internet carries an estimated 10% of the world's total electricity consumption, which is equivalent to the entire energy consumption of the United Kingdom.

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