Just like humans, the Internet sleeps (at least in some parts of the globe)

To many in the developed world, the Internet is always accessible from any computer or mobile device at any time of the day.

A study by researchers from the University of Southern California (USC), however, shows that in some parts of the world, the Internet has a regular sleep pattern.

According to the USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Information Sciences Institute (ISI), the Internet "is a beast made of over 4 billion IP addresses on a vast interconnected network," and it sleeps in different parts of the world following similar cycles as the sun rises and sets.