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Access to the Internet is offered by [ISPs](isp.md) (internet service providers) but it's pretty easy to connect to the Internet even for free, e.g. via free [wifis](wifi.md) in public places, or in libraries. By 2020 more than half of world's population had access to the Internet -- most people in the first world have practically constant, unlimited access to it via their [smartphones](smartphone.md), and even in [poor countries](shithole.md) [capitalism](capitalism.md) makes these devices along with Internet access cheap as people constantly carrying around devices that display [ads](ad.md) and spy on them is what allows their easy [exploitation](leading_the_pig_to_the_slaughterhouse.md).
Initially the Internet was basically a purely technological marvel but since its wide spread that made it an inseparable part of our everyday lives it also turned into a phenomenon of interest to many other fields such as psychology and sociology. By now the number of various Internet communities and subcultures has grown so much that a sociologist can probably spend a whole career studying only Internet communities, of which many have risen and fallen over the decades. Studying Internet [culture](culture.md) has become a hobby to many, something akin an alternative to traveling [in real life](irl.md) -- the Internet is quite like an another planet now, with new countries and nations coming to existence, with their own laws and even language dialects forming in the virtual Universe. In the 2000s the situation was basically this: older people didn't know the Internet slang and young people did. By 2020s everyone knows the Internet, it's just that different people are familiar with different corners of it, with different flavors of [memes](meme.md), slang and in-jokes, some are [Facebook](facebook.md) and Twitter normies, some are TikTokers, some are [4channers](4chan.md), [redditors](reddit.md), [Usenet](usenet.md) and [IRC](irc.md) boomers, quake multiplayer enjoyers, some are [suckless](suckless.md) hackers, some fancy deeper underground such as Vidlii, [Bitreich](bitreich.md), [LRS](lrs.md), [gopher](gopher.md), [encyclopedia dramatica](dramatica.md), some love [netstalking](netstalking.md), [darknet](darknet.md) exploration, data archeology and hoarding. And so on and so forth.
Initially the Internet was basically a purely technological marvel but since its wide spread that made it an inseparable part of our everyday lives it also turned into a phenomenon of interest to many other fields such as psychology and sociology. By now the number of various Internet communities and subcultures has grown so much that a sociologist can probably spend a whole career studying only Internet communities, of which many have risen and fallen over the decades. Studying Internet [culture](culture.md) has become a hobby to many, something akin an alternative to traveling [in real life](irl.md) -- the Internet is quite like an another planet now, with new countries and nations coming to existence, with their own laws and even language dialects forming in the virtual Universe. In the 2000s the situation was basically this: older people didn't know the Internet slang and young people did. By 2020s everyone knows the Internet, it's just that different people are familiar with different corners of it, with different flavors of [memes](meme.md), slang and in-jokes, some are [Facebook](facebook.md) and Twitter normies, some are TikTokers, some are [4channers](4chan.md), [redditors](reddit.md), [Usenet](usenet.md) and [IRC](irc.md) boomers, quake multiplayer enjoyers, some are [suckless](suckless.md) hackers, some fancy deeper underground such as Vidlii, [Bitreich](bitreich.md), [LRS](lrs.md), [gopher](gopher.md), [encyclopedia dramatica](dramatica.md), some love [netstalking](netstalking.md), [darknet](darknet.md) exploration, data archeology and [hoarding](data_hoarding.md). And so on and so forth.
The following are some **statistics** about the Internet as of early 2020s: there are over 5 billion users world-wide (more than half of them from Asia and mostly young people), it is estimated 63% people worldwide use the Internet with the number being as high as 90% in the developed countries. Most Internet users are English speakers (27%), followed by Chinese speakers (25%). It's also estimated over 50 billion individual devices connected, about 2 billion websites (over 60% in [English](english.md)) on the web, hundreds of billions of emails are sent every day, average connection speed is 24 Mbps, there are over 370 million registered [domain](domain.md) names (most popular [TLD](tld.md) is .com), [Google](google.md) performs about 7 billion web searches daily (over 90% of all search engines).