A survey carried out by the BBC indicated that more than three-quarters of the world's population believe that access to internet is a fundamental right. The poll, which questioned more than 27,000 adults across 26 countries, suggested strong global support for access to the Web. The findings were a direct result of efforts being taken across the world to increase Net access, with the United Nations leading a push for more online. For instance, countries like Finland and Estonia have already ruled that internet access is a human right, confirmed the BBC. According to the survey, Mexico, Brazil and Turkey were among countries where support was highest. South Korea, where nearly all citizens enjoy high-speed Net access, had the greatest majority of people - 96 per cent - who believed that access to the internet was a fundamental right.
It is hard to remember the days before the dot-corn revolution. Twenty-five years ago -on March 15, 1985 - the first dot-corn domain name, Symbolics.com, appeared on the internet, ushering in the commercial age of the World Wide Web, the CNN reported.
Having a domain name made it simpler for the average person to access a website. Development was slow, at first, as it took more than two years for the first 100 websites and domain names to go online; by 1995 the number had grown to 18,000 websites. Today, the internet and World Wide Web has grown to more than 80 million dot-corn domain names, according to the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF).
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