Hello and welcome back to the Curious Kid podcast.

This is episode number 10 for us, so we are going to do something we have never done before to celebrate.

We are going to do our first ever listener suggestion episode.

We have a fan in Baltimore, Maryland, who is curious and wants to learn about something really interesting.

Eva wants us to get curious about the Internet.

That's a great suggestion, so let's do it.

What's our question of the week?

How fast can you send information on the Internet?

Ooh, that one's tough.

So if you send someone information over the internet,

how fast does the information travel to them?

Okay, before we discuss how the internet works,

let's review some stats.

When I was a kid, the internet existed,

but it was very different and very few people had access to the internet.

In fact, until 1997, less than 1% of the worldwide population had internet access. At the end of 1997, only 70 million

people worldwide had internet access. That sounds like a lot, but it isn't, because that means that only

17 people out of every 1,000

people were able to use the internet.

That's right around the time the internet became more accessible for everyone.

And just 10 years later in 2007, over 1.3 billion people had access to the internet worldwide.

In case you missed it, in just 10 years, the number of people with

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