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Welcome to a new edition of “On the Net Today”, the newsletter where every Friday we share a selection of useful and interesting resources to help you get the most out of the internet and make the best use of your browsing time.

In celebration of the Easter holidays, "On the Net Today" is taking a short break. There will be no newsletter next week — it will be back in your inbox in two weeks, on Friday, April 10. Happy holidays!

Here are the topics we’ve prepared for today:

Tomorrow, Saturday, March 28, 2026, the 20th edition of Earth Hour will be celebrated worldwide — an international campaign in defense of nature and the environment led by the NGO WWF (World Wildlife Fund).

The proposal from WWF and participating organizations is that, across the world, this Saturday at 8:30 PM local time, we turn off our lights for one hour, until 9:30 PM.

Here is how the campaign's organizers present it:

“Since our beginnings in 2007, Earth Hour has been known for the symbolic “lights off” in support of our planet. Over the years, we've stepped things up, breathed new life into our movement and mission to create the Biggest Hour for Earth. In 2026, we’ll mark our 20th anniversary, celebrating two decades of collective action and storytelling from communities around the world.” 

“Earth Hour is moment of unity that brings the world together, shines a spotlight on nature loss and the climate crisis, and inspires millions more to act and advocate for urgent change. Each year, we work together to turn a single Earth Hour into thousands and millions of hours of action for our one shared home.”

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Since 2018, Finland has been the happiest country in the world, according to the ranking published annually by the World Happiness Report. In this year's 2026 edition, released a few days ago, Finland once again takes first place with a score of 7.764 out of 10, ahead of Iceland, Denmark, Costa Rica, and Sweden.

One of the most notable findings of this edition is the emergence of Costa Rica among the five happiest countries in the world — the first time a Latin American country has broken into the top five.

The World Happiness Report combines wellbeing data from more than 140 countries with analysis from leading researchers across various disciplines. The report is published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford in collaboration with Gallup, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, and the organization’s own editorial board.

The report's data can be explored in various interactive formats here.

The influence of social media

This year, the report offers an in-depth analysis of the effects that the growing use of social media is having on happiness levels across different countries.

The report's authors state that in North America and Western Europe, "young people are much less happy than 15 years ago. Over the same period, social media use has greatly increased. Many people blame social media for this fall in happiness, but does this hypothesis stand the test of rigorous scientific analysis?"

According to the report's authors, based on all the elements analyzed on this topic, "we conclude that heavy users of social media are at risk, especially in English-speaking countries and Western Europe. Does this mean that social media use fully explains the worrying decline in youth wellbeing in those regions? Of course not. The trends are caused by many factors, which differ between continents. However, the evidence in this report does suggest that heavy social media use, especially in some countries, provides an important part of the explanation."

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The internet portal Yahoo has just launched Yahoo 100, a continuously updated list offering the hundred stories generating the most interest among internet users at any given moment.

Yahoo 100 is powered by the artificial intelligence behind its Yahoo Scout search engine.

As Kat Downs Mulder, Vice President and General Manager of Yahoo News and Home, explained on LinkedIn: "From hard news to social trends, the Yahoo 100 will help you easily catch up and keep up with everything going on in the world – including summaries, related videos, top articles and editor’s notes written by our fantastic originals team. Never get caught by surprise again 🙂".

Downs considers that Yahoo 100 "captures how we think about Yahoo’s role as a guide. We’re helping people navigate the noise and better understand what matters in the moment. Each item in the 100 also connects to deeper reporting from credible publishers so you can follow how stories evolve over time."

The 100 stories on Yahoo 100 can be filtered by category: Sports, News, Business, Entertainment, Technology, Health, and Lifestyle.

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In a few days, the finalists of the Webby Awards will be announced — considered by many to be the most prestigious awards on the internet. 

These prizes, which recognize excellence across multiple online categories, have been awarded since 1996, in the early days of the commercial web. They are organized by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.

Regarding the Webby Awards, do you think the following statement is true or false?:

In last Friday's edition, we asked which browser popularized internet use in the mid-1990s. The correct answer was Netscape Navigator.

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