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Old 07-12-2008, 01:53 PM
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The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com

Bill Gates began programming computers at age 13


Google receives about 200 million search queries each day. More than half of which come from outside the United States. During the heviest traffic more than 2,000 search queries are answered each second

More than 80% of home pages on the Web are in English. German has only 4.5% and Japanese 3.1%


The percentage of email messages in English is estimates to vary between 60% and 85%

The words "electronic mail" was introduced 30 years ago. Queen Elizabeth of Britain sent her first email in 1976

Sweden has the most affordable broadband internet access in Europe

The highest amount of money paid for a domain name is for business.com, $7.5 million

The save icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk with the shutters on backwards

Internet was designed to survive thermonuclear assault"

Every single possible 3 character.com domain has been registered

Internet advertising is the fastest growing advertising medium

Bill Gates house was partially designed using a Macintosh computer

All domain names in Slovakia are free

88% of websites have no discernible traffic

Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month

28% of IBM employees are Indians

Each day an average American depends on about 250 computers

Microsoft is the biggest developer of Mac software outside Apple

The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of 5 Megabytes

Maps are often among the top words submitted to Internet search engines

The most popular non-HTML format files return from Google is PDF-format

Dr. Lieven P. Van Neste is the owner of over 200,000 domain names

The top searchwords in Google where September 19, 2005 "hurricane rita"

Only 10% of all the pages on the Internet make it to the search engines

In 1982 Time magazine named the computer its "Man of the Year"

Microsoft writes the code for autopilot systems in all major airplanes

Internet is one of the fastest growing forms of advertising

In computer language, wysiwyg is an acronym for "what you see is what you get"

About one-third of recorded CDs are pirated

In the early days of computers, black and white monitors were thought sufficient to satisfy all future data processing needs
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