Interesting Fact # 825 - Broadband

An Ofcom report shows that more rural homes in the UK have broadband internet than urban dwellings do.

(59% of rural households have broadband compared to 57% of urban homes.)

Interesting Fact # 662 - IP Addresses

IP (Internet protocol) addresses will run out in 2010.

(Every device that goes online is allocated a unique IP address but the pool of numbers is finite and due to run out around 2010. ISPs (Internet Service Providers) urgently need to roll out the next generation of net addresses. The new system, called IPv6, has been awaiting roll out for 10 years. Well it seems like your typical IT project then.)

Interesting Fact # 639 - Internet Access

When Americans were asked by the advertising agency JWT how long they could go without internet access and still feel OK, 15% said a day or less, most said they could only manage a few days.

(Personally I have gone for 2 weeks with no access. The first couple of days you're twitchy, but you soon get used to having a proper life, honest.)

Interesting Fact # 482 - The World Wide Web

According to Netcraft, an independent technology reviewer, there are now more than 100 million websites on the internet!

(Counting only domain name sites with content, they tracked the growth of the internet since 1995 and say of the 100m, around 48 million are active sites that are updated regularly. When it began observing sites through the domain name system in 1995, there were 18,000 web sites in existence.)