1. St Isidore, who was born around 560 and died on April 4, 636, compiled a 20-volume encyclopedia consisting of all the world’s knowledge.
2. He was proposed as patron saint of the internet in 1997 by Pope John Paul II, though that has never been officially ratified.
3. Some say the internet error message “404 Not Found” honours the April 4 feast day of Isidore…
4. The more likely explanation, however, is that 404 was the room number at CERN where the original internet main database was kept.
5. The world’s first website was put online by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990. Appropriately enough, it contained links explaining the World Wide Web.
6. There are now more than 1.8 billion websites covering almost five billion searchable web pages.
7. Almost 300 billion emails and three billion Google searches are made every day.
8. The term “surfing” for browsing on the internet was coined in 1992 by New York librarian Jean Armour Polly.
9. Internet addiction disorder was first classified as a psychological dependence problem in 1998.
10. China has internet addiction treatment camps for its estimated 23 million internet addicts.
